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Re: Silicon Sea almanac
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2006 May 21, 19:13 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2006 May 21, 19:13 -0700
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.
