5/8/04.
Tim,
CHART! Aaarrgh!! Some programs will just never die.
However. There was a Unix version of CHART which worked, and which
could access versions of the catalogues that it needed. These Unix
versions were presumably created when CHART was ported. AFAIK they're
included in the CHART distribution. Note, however, that the catalogues
are obsolete (in an astronomical, rather than a computing sense).
The catalogue format was peculiar (in more senes than one) to CHART, and
doesn't correspond to anything available from the CDS.
I enclose some notes on using CHART (originally from Malcolm) as an
attachment (they're on my Web pages, but the Web server here has been
fiddled with and none of my pages are available at the moment). I was
going to try them out, to see if CHART still worked, but it isn't
installed here.
I'm not sure if this helps.
CHART is long past its sell-by date. I think that it is time to finally
put a stake through its heart.
regards,
Clive.
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