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From: kim@amdahl.UUCP (Kim DeVaughn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: WARNING: problem with Amiga shar program on StarChart
Message-ID: <5213@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 17-Jan-87 22:32:31 EST
Article-I.D.: amdahl.5213
Posted: Sat Jan 17 22:32:31 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Jan-87 03:41:28 EST
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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Keywords: shar bugs starchart tektronix yale catalog


[ ... go ahead, eat my bits ... ]

I have been using the "shar" program from Fish Disk #28 for a couple of
months, and haven't had any problems unsharing anything on the Amiga ...
until today!

I was going to look at Amiga-izing the StarChart programs and condensed
Yale star catalog that were posted to net.sources this past week by Alan
Paeth, and discovered that the 1st character of each line had been tossed
away when it was unshared.  Naturally, this discovery was made after I'd
already blown off the shar files themselves :-( !

Now to go get the shar files again, and figure out what's so unique
about this particular format that's being used (sigh).

BTW, anyone who is Beta testing Marco Papa's Tektronix Emulator might want
to give the StarChart s/w a try ... there is a driver for Tek tubes, as
well as for UNIX(R) pic format, and now PostScript.

/kim


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