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Archive-name: auto/sci.astro/yet-another-version-of-xsky

OK, before I get carried away, let me repeat the essential information:

xsky, a computerized sky atlas for the X Window System, is available for
anonymous FTP on arizona.edu in the directory [.SOFTWARE.UNIX.XSKY] as
xsky.tarz

The file is just over 700K bytes in size; you should retrieve it in binary
mode and rename it to xsky.tar.Z, which is a compressed tar file.  Explode
it and read BuildInstall.

For those of you who already have xsky, this version fixes the PostScript
print file generation code to generate print files that make sense even if
you used an ANSI C compiler to build xsky.  There are also a number of new
entries in the RNGC description expansion tables, so more of the descriptions
expand to something sensible (there is still ongoing work in that area;
currently there are about three dozen bogus expansions, but fixing them
involves being careful not to break other ones, so it's kind of slow work).

xsky runs using the Athena widget set, so it should work on any pure X plat-
form (users of Sun OpenWindows, I'm sorry I cannot help you; I've no idea
what the problems are).  xsky is known to work on a wide variety of systems
with both ANSI and non-ANSI compilers.

Unless there's something that needs fixing badly, this will be the last
release for quite some time.  I have a fair-sized list of enhancement
suggestions, and as always, I actively solicit more, but other duties press
in at the moment.

Please don't hesitate to write with questions, comments, or suggestions.  I
try to answer everybody, but sometimes mail bounces.  Please be sure to put
a valid mail address in your signature; it's lots friendlier than making
everybody decode the mail headers, which are wrong/misleading a lot of
times, anyway!

If you're using xsky, I'd like to hear from you, if only to say hi.  It's
interesting to watch software work its way around the world through the
magic of the net.

Terry R. Friedrichsen

terry@venus.sunquest.com  (Internet)
uunet!sunquest!terry      (Usenet)
terry@sds.sdsc.edu        (alternate address; I live in Tucson)