Re: predict
That's great, Bdale. I have had predict on my system since before the
release and it works quite nicely. I imagine that creating the diff to
undo all the cute installation stuff must have been an interesting
task. It definitely was "unique".
Bob, W6SWE
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:00:56PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> I've just uploaded KB2BD's 'predict' program as a new Debian package. It's
> a satellite tracking program that's ncurses based and GPL'ed.
>
> I had to hack on it quite a bit to make a package out of it. His config and
> installation process was "unique", and not easy to work with to build a
> package. Fortunately, he's interested in folding my patches in, and I look
> forward to working with him to improve the packagability of the program.
>
> The most interesting aspect of this program is probably the voice synthesis
> during a pass, which could be handy for doing hand pointing of antennas or
> for optical spotting of satellites.
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