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- SAC 2000 version 5.0
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- The Saguaro Astonomy Club's Deep-Sky database, version 5.0, is now
- available. The database contains information on 10,368 non-stellar
- objects. This is the README file for the Amiga, which lists the differ-
- ences from the standard PC distribution.
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- The most obvious difference is that the Amiga version comes on one
- floppy disk. This is because the 3.5" disk can hold the entire ZOO'ed
- database while the PC version must have it split between two 360K disks.
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- The database itself is distributed as an ASCII text file. I made
- sure that the CR/LFs found in PC text files have been converted to just
- LFs (which is standard in the Unix and Amiga worlds). Rather than
- rearchiving each section of the database into its own ARC file, I put
- them all into one ZOO file (since ZOO is more commom over a wider range
- of machines, including Unix and the Amiga). I did archive all the PC
- specific files (there was a report generator), but since they were for
- the PC, they would be mostly useless on the Amiga. They are included
- for completeness.
-
- The database itself is about 1.2 Mbytes, but after being loaded
- into a database, expands to around 2.4 Mbytes. So the database is most
- useful on a hard drive. The complete text database can be generated
- using the AmigaDOS command:
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- JOIN sac50b.txt sac50c.txt sac50d.txt sac50e.txt AS sac50.txt
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- This will merge all the database pieces into one file.
-
-
- Archive sac.zoo (excluding this file):
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- Length CF Size Now Date Time
- -------- --- -------- --------- --------
- 6248 42% 3616 19 May 89 10:49:34 navstar
- 22920 52% 11098 19 May 89 10:36:50 potporri.txt
- 20252 51% 9989 19 May 89 10:32:18 sacdoc.txt
- 53926 69% 16758 19 May 89 11:00:08 multistr.txt
- 58776 63% 21947 19 May 89 10:48:20 photondx.txt
- 2164 43% 1239 19 May 89 11:00:38 read.me
- 2253 0% 2253 19 May 89 10:28:20 pc-install.arc
- 137697 0% 137697 19 May 89 10:27:46 pc-sac-report-gen.arc
- 297988 65% 103051 19 May 89 15:26:08 sac50b.txt
- 316058 64% 114485 19 May 89 16:54:46 sac50c.txt
- 318000 64% 112920 19 May 89 16:58:56 sac50d.txt
- 295203 64% 104820 19 May 89 17:52:58 sac50e.txt
- -------- --- -------- --------- --------
- 1531485 58% 639873 12 fil
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-
- -Paul Dickson
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- taurus!dickson @ asuvax.asu.edu
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