From: Wilbert Knol (vxjvvkc.wmuvhri@wincom.net)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 22:05:17 EET
> >Satellites are represented in the sat selection menu by [A-Z] Typically,
> >I dump a TLE keps file into Pedict that contains orbital info for far
> >more satellites. As a result, some the those sats cannot be selected by
> >Predict (usually the ones I want...)
>
> Have you tried the patch that increases the size of the satellite list to
> 50? Looks like 50 is just enough to hold all the satellites in the AMSAT
> keplerian element bulletins. A link to the patch is on the Predict
> webpages.
I downloaded the G1YYH patches as per Ricardo's message. But both of
those failed against Predict 2.1.5.
Meanwhile, I am using my script to reduce the AMSAT keps file to a size
that Predict can handle. It also overwrites the old ~/.predict/predict.tle
file. As a result, I don't have to tell predict to update the keps once I've
run the script.
> Beware that this can cause problems with other programs that use Predict
> as a server. For example gsat segfaults, apparently because it doesn't
> check the size of the satellite list received from the server and this
> results in a buffer overflow (gsat is hardcoded for 26 satellites IIRC).
Hmm, I think I will wait for John KB2DB to incorporate the patch into the
next release... Thanks for the comments.
Wilbert, ZL2BSJ
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