Greg Mortensen writes: > After a short break from satellite observing, I've been bitten by the > bug once again. This time, however, I'm running Linux > as my main OS and I was wondering if QuickSat was available for it? Yes! I run QuickSat under Linux and am very happy with it. A cron job run nightly spits out predictions for the next evening, brackets the output with an HTML header/footer, and updates my web page with the information. Mike McCants was kind enough to provide me with the source converted from Fortran to C using "f2c". Compilation was very straightforward. I have made the following files available for anonymous FTP from my computer, angwin.wwc.edu, in the /pub directory: quicksat-bin.tar.gz Executable, support, and documentation files for QuickSat. Included are some simple scripts for automating control file generation and nightly predictions. (Executables linked with libc.so.4.7.2 and libm.so.4.6.27 -- non-ELF...) quicksat-src.tar.gz My QuickSat source tree, including code for the necessary Fortran support libraries. Some caveats: this is version 2.10A, which has been superseded, I think. Mike may prefer to make a more "official" distribution available in the SeeSat-L archives. In the meantime, the files above should get you started. It's a amazing what a nice little program like QuickSat is capable of when coupled with a real operating system :-) Mark Haun haunma@wwc.edu