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Re: Silicon Sea almanac
From: Robert Gainer
Date: 2006 May 22, 06:38 -0400
From: Robert Gainer
Date: 2006 May 22, 06:38 -0400
Thanks Paul and I will do that. Bob > > From: Paul Hirose> Date: 2006/05/21 Sun PM 10:13:54 EDT > To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM > Subject: Re: Silicon Sea almanac > > Robert Gainer wrote: > > > When you are done please send a copy to me and I will post it on the NavL attachment page. I am going to keep that page up for a while unless Dan says otherwise. I would also like to see the source code when that becomes available. I don?t think I can write code to support it but I am starting to study C so it would be interesting to see the code. > > I might forget, so ask again when I announce that it's done. > > It appears the DLL will be nearly 1 meg in size. Source code is a mix of > Fortran 77 for the JPL and IAU routines, and C++ for the stuff I wrote. > The example program that demonstrates and tests the DLL is written in C. > It's designed in modular fashion, so that for many tasks a programmer > can simply copy a section of code, modify it a little, and get quick > results. > > Getting back to Silicon Sea almanacs, I have thought of writing software > to generate Nautical Almanac daily pages in HTML for any desired date. > But it won't happen any time soon. After I finish this DLL, my next > project will be a front end so you don't have to be a programmer to use > my DLL. >