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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v16i090:  Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory, Part01/49
Message-ID: <1576@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 06:06:31 GMT
References: <1249@fig.bbn.com> <1280@vsi1.UUCP>
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In article <1280@vsi1.UUCP>, lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
> In article <1249@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@uunet.uu.net (Rich Salz) writes:
> =The following describes the SAO (Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory) dataset,
> =reduced to RA/DECL/MAG records and posted in ASCII format in 48 parts.

> HEY! 3MB of posting for extremely limited interest?  I strongly urge you,
> Rich, to not send the rest of this out in this manner.  I'm sure there must
> be a much better channel for distribution.

I must disagree.  Real data.  We see lots of code posted which is nice and
even sometimes useful.  Here is something that could be interesting to
play with.  I think it is of at least as much interest and many of the
programs posted.
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