[vsnet-chat 4609] Name List 76 - Guide TDF update

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Feh!

Right, it seems that Name List 76 has format differences from the ftp
sourced latest GCVS, such as there being no need for a preceding 0 when
looking for an object such as V435 Lac for example [it'd have to be V0435
Lac in the GCVS version].

A further complication is that whilst the GCVS file has returned to using
'<' to denote less than, the Name List 76 text file has re-returned to
using '(' to denote less than in the case of minimum magnitude.  Not
realising this at first I loused up the conditionals in the TDF... ...ie I
flagged magnitudes beginning with ( as being amplitudes, which is true,
except amplitudes also end with a ')' , and less than minimum mags also
begin with '(', and growl...  In the GCVS version there is no problem due
to use of < and ( for the different types of magnitude, etc, &c...

...anyway, pasted below is a corrected TDF which allows for this and
another vagary or two.

Note also that there are two other additional lines in this version of the
tdf that will read a notes file of cross identifications [_if_ it exists].
Guide TDF language encodes notes files in a special way, but basically if
IBVS 5135's table 2 ascii file, ie 5135-T2.TXT, is taken into a text editor
and converted such that what normally reads as:-

>V414  And = Name |LD 321
>V414  And = IRAS |00070+3730
>V414  And = GSC  |2781.01738
>V415  And = Name |LD 335
>V415  And = IRAS |00479+4614
>V416  And = Name |LD 338
>V416  And = IRAS |01076+4450
>V416  And = GSC  |3264.00924
...
>V422  Vul = Name |Had V18
>V422  Vul = IRAS |21030+2642

then reads as:-

>~V414  And
>LD 321
>~V414  And
>IRAS 00070+3730
>~V414  And
>GSC  2781.01738
>~V415  And
>LD 335
>~V415  And
>IRAS 00479+4614
>~V416  And
>LD 338
>~V416  And
>IRAS 01076+4450
>~V416  And
>GSC  3264.00924
...
>~V422  Vul
>Had V18
>~V422  Vul
>IRAS 21030+2642

[ignore/remove all '>' characters] and is saved in the Guide directory as
the file nl76xID.not , then cross identification information will appear in
More Info.

Conversion from one format to the other is simple enough in a text editor
or word processor using global search and replace [hint, find out the code
for carriage return and replace each carriage return with a
carriage_return~ combination for example, similarly replace each occurrence
of = with a carriage_return code].

Data file sources and word wrap worries are as per my previous mail.  Cut
and paste the following to a Guide directory as nl76.tdf after globally
removing all ! characters and ensure 5135-T1.TXT is also in that directory.

Cheers

John

----------------------------------tdf snip
start---------------------------------------
!file 5135-T1.TXT!
!title 76th Name List!
!RA H  37  2!
!RA M  39  2!
!RA S  41  4!
!de d  46  3!
!de m  49  2!
!de s  51  2!
!mag  56 5!
!text  8  9!
!~b  8   9 %s\n\n!
!~b 77   9 Variability Type: %s\n\n!
!~b 56   5 Max Mag: %s!
!~b 61   1  %s!
!~b  1   1 \n!
!~b 63  11 Min Mag: %s\n!
!~b 71 0 ) Min Mag=(Amplitude)\n!
!~b 74   2 Mag Type %s\n\n!
!~r 37   8 RA(J2000)   %R\n!
!~r 46   7 Dec(J2000) %D\n!
!~r 19   2 \nRA(B1950): %sh!
!~r 21   2  %sm!
!~r 23   4  %ss\n!
!~r 28   3 Dec(B1950): %sd!
!~r 31   2   %s'!
!~r 33   2   %s"\n!
!~r  1   1 \n\nCross Identifications\n\n!
!~n  8   9 nl76xID.not!
!!
!epoch 2000!
!type   6!
!offset 276!
!label spaces!
!goto spaces!
!goto case!
!field 0 120!
!mag lim 199!
!shown 1!
!end!
-----------------------end tdf snip--------------------------

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