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SAC 2000 version 5.0
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.
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.
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:
JOIN sac50b.txt sac50c.txt sac50d.txt sac50e.txt AS sac50.txt
This will merge all the database pieces into one file.
Archive sac.zoo (excluding this file):
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
-Paul Dickson
taurus!dickson @ asuvax.asu.edu