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CHANGES AND BUGS FIXED ON ASTRO 2.XX.
2.01 Transit Printout fixed so text describing effect of
planet only shows on first transit printout
2.02 Transits fixed so aspects which are not used are
deallocated after use. Also fixed a bug that would
prevent user from viewing extremely large file
even after clipping. Parameters used when printing
a file or converting it to text are now saved to
the ASTROSYS.DAT file. But the out file is not
saved unless it is a device. Changed maximum
parameters in print report and convert to ascii
text. Maximum width is now 160 characters wide, and
left margin for printout is 40 characters.
ASGRAPHC: fixed font file problems so defaults to
Modern if found, also if no font dir is specified,
then it defaults to cd. "n1" in default font def
was causing problems with scaled fonts supplied so
removed it. When saving ASTROGRA.DAT, first looks
for ASTROGRA.DAT then if not found looks for
ASGRAPHC.EXE. In both cases it use the dos path
variable.
Added a new graphics print capability to this
part of the program. GRAPHICS.COM is no longer
needed. Prints to any printer compatible with
EPSON FX or IBM Proprinter type printer from
any graphics mode.
Be Sure To Erase ASTROSYS.DAT and ASTROGRA.DAT
if you are upgrading from version 2.01
2.03 International time and date support added for
printouts and the text on graphics printout.
Fixed bug that would only occur in a floppy disk
system where the prompt to insert the disk prompts
for the wrong disk. Floppy Disk Users Should
Upgrade all three disks as utility programs have
also been fixed!
Fixed a bug in DOS Critical Error handler, and
improved information particularly for users of
DOS 3.0+.
Fixed a Bug where it was not correctly determined
if an angle or planet is on a house cusp or not.
Fixed Problem Where if you encountered an error
writing, replacing or deleting a record in either
of the database, that additions to the database
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would all be made at the same spot overwriting the
change, but index entries would all point to the
same record.
Added Warning messages if "War Time" is left out
if necessary or used when not necessary, or if
daylight time may have been left out and it may
have been in effect.
Also added capability so that text can use
characters between 1 - 31 and those between 128
and 255.
Be Sure To Erase ASTROSYS.DAT and ASTROGRA.DAT
if you are upgrading from version 2.01
2.04 Fixed Minor Bug in Summary caused by changes in
2.03, fixed bug in midpoint aspects, also fixed bug
where house was determined to be on a cusp or
intercepted, and changed Normal Motion to Direct
Motion.
Printout now used Bold and Underscore attributes.
Source Text surrounded with { and } will be bold,
and text source surrounded with < and > will be
underlined. This is implemented in viewer, printout
and conversion to text. A new setup screen is
added to get printer data strings, and strings to
replace attributes with when converting to ASCII
text.
Added New Report Format listing Numeric Data Only,
which has it's own options screen.
You must replace the Setup file ASTROSYS.DAT and
ASTROGRA.DAT, when installing this version, and
reset the Setup.
Graphics Program beefed up so it optionally using
commands, different info. What Follows are the
changes in the docs.
You will notice at the right side of the screen a series
of lines at the top and bottom right of the screen such as
"ESC=Exit", these indicate commands you can give. Anytime
you wish to exit this program just press the {ESC} key. If
you want to print the screen to your printer, just press 'P'
or 'p'.
Pressing 'S' or 's' will toggle displaying of the Sign
Names around the circle. Pressing 'N' or 'n' will toggle
displaying the numbers 0-360 degrees. These are displayed in
60 degree increments.
Pressing '#' toggles displaying House Numbers, where
applicable. Pressing 'H' or 'h' toggles displaying the
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degrees of the House Cusps. When this display is toggled on,
if the House Numbers are displayed, these Numbers will be
turned off.
If you want to display the data for individual planets,
press 'D' or 'd'. This will toggle displaying the degrees
corresponding to the outer circle. If two degrees are within
5 degrees of one another only the first will be displayed.
This function will turn off display of the Inner Numbers,
if they are on at this time. If you are displaying a
Compatibility, Transit, or Progression chart, and want to see
the data for the inner circle press 'I' or 'i'. If the outer
degrees are displayed, they will be turned off.
If you want to display either the house degrees or the
planet degrees, I would suggest, toggling off display of the
Sign Names, Numbers 0-360, and the House Numbers, to reduce
clutter on the screen.
A typical ASTROGRA.DAT file contains the following data:
MODE = 16
GRMO = 0
FOFI = D:\MSCOM\AST\data\MODERN.FON FOSE = t'MODERN'h11w7b
PFLG = D0 ┌────────┘^^^
PORT = 1 └<==Font size
PNIT = <27>3<21> Is Smaller
PHED = <27>L<188><2> Now!!
PRST = <27>3<36>
PEOP = <27>J<1>
PANO = 0
PDRM = N00S# <========== NOTE NEW ENTRY!!!!
NOPA = 0
PA# = 0, PAV = 0x000000
The Line "PDRM = N00S# sets the mode that the program will
use to print out the screen. This is actually 5 separate
flags strung together such as the PFLG variable above. These
flags are as above either 0 meaning they are off or to a
specific letter indicating tha they are on. These are the
letters and positions that they can have
Pos: ON: OFF: Effect:
1 N 0 If On Shows Degrees 0-360 in 60 deg incs.
2 H 0 If On Shows House Cusp Degrees
3 D 0 If On Shows Planet Degrees (Outer)
4 S 0 If On Shows Sign Names
5 # 0 If On Shows House Numbers
2.05 Fixed problem that occurred on floppy systems only
when user swapped disks for help while birth screen
was on.
If an error occurs, the files that would usually be
created are now removed from the listing.
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If temporary files are deleted, they would cause
errors when deleting files or killing the listing.
These errors no longer cause warnings.
If a user swapped, longitude and latitude, a math
error would probably happen with unpredicatable
effects. A new handler has been installed to catch
math errors
text and documentation files have been cleaned up a
little bit.
2.06 Fixed a few small bugs, created in version 2.04.
1. Options menu options and screen didn't match.
2. Output files > 32700 bytes created problems.
2.07 Fixed a few small bugs
1. No Functional Counts
2. Compatibilities Houses were wrong.
2.08 1. Fixed bug in print section which caused crash
2. Fixed a few bugs in graphics printing vga,
loading and saving setup.
2.081 1. A few text problems fixed.
2. INDEXDB.EXE and MAKEPOP.EXE fixed a bug in each,
also made them produce output user can see them
working.
2.09 1. More Text Fixes.
2. New Menu System on Graphics, Just Press Any Key.
3. Fixed small bug may have caused indexes to fail.
4. Graphics On CGA Adapters and Monitors now
defaults to 200 8 640 pixel 1 color B & W.
2.10 1. Mislinked (shows overlay debug display)
2. Minor Bug discovered while working on future
changes in file to ascii text conversion.
2.11 Minor change.
2.12 Fixed ASGRAPHC printing in VGA mode.
Changed shwareware locking to a slightly different
scheme. This version allows a password to be used
gotten from me, so you don't need to replace .EXE
file if you don't want to. Password only option is
cheaper than full registration with program.
Fixed Rounding error in sidereal calculation.
Longitude now adjusts seconds of sidereal time
as well.
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Made a change so that if Either the Special Code or
the Time Zone Field is Set to "Other", the GMT
fields will override the Time Zone and Special Code
Settings. If neither are "Other" auto recalculation
of the GMT fields will result.
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