Subj : Re: Active or dead?
To : mark lewis
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Fri Nov 04 2016 06:29 am
-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
ml> orbitel is another of dave ransom's (RIP) tools like his STSPLUS which
ml> i still use on a few machines... orbitel takes the TLE files and
ml> combines them and splits them out however you want but it has a problem
ml> with memory since it is written in the ancient days with the 64k
ml> limit... with all my TLEs, orbitel only output maybe 1500 of them
ml> whereas my project, which is limited only by system memory, outputs all
ml> 16707 active ones i have TLEs for as well as all 37899 TLEs i have
ml> available for both flying and down craft... no way that orbitel can
ml> touch that without a lot of manual help slicing and dicing...
Yep, I can see the reason for writing your software, the 64k segment limit in
DOS was a pain. I did encounter that issue once or twice. Back in the TP/DOS
days, I had to use various techniques to work around it. :)
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