Pat - "JASCOM" I like it! ;-) Wonder what Bob and the rest of this group thinks of that! heheheh Your project sounds interesting! I too am working on a...
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cjl023
Aug 1, 2002 11:55 am
Marc, Sounds good. My CPU is not idle though, and I'm the patient sort so take your time and let me know when and if I can help. I'm doing the ASCOM interface...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 1, 2002 1:42 pm
... This all sounds GREAT to me!!!!! Especially if you guys can figure out how to do the reverse... hook Java applications into the COM drivers. I am a little...
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Peter Chance
peterchanceuk
Aug 2, 2002 1:49 pm
Hi Bob Any news on the fix for the negative GMT offset, either from Meade or the kludge? Peter Telephone: +44 (0)1276 452503 Facsimile: +44 (0)1276 451730 ...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 3, 2002 4:43 pm
Peter, et.al. -- I -did- get a response from Meade. Actually I talked to the firmware developer yesterday. Version 1.3 of the firmware is due out in a matter...
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Peter Chance
peterchanceuk
Aug 3, 2002 4:54 pm
Thanks Bob, I look forward to trying it. Peter ... From: Bob Denny [mailto:rdenny@...] Sent: 03 August 2002 17:43 To: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 3, 2002 4:59 pm
Wow, that was fast!...
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Peter Chance
peterchanceuk
Aug 3, 2002 5:06 pm
That's what having an ADSL connection does for you! ... From: Bob Denny [mailto:rdenny@...] Sent: 03 August 2002 17:59 To: ASCOM-Talk@yahoogroups.com ...
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T. Gregory Guzik
guzik@...
Aug 3, 2002 5:40 pm
Bob, What is the chance of getting from the developer a listing / description of the LX200GPS Autostar II v1.3 command set? Cheers, Greg Guzik ... From: "Bob...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 3, 2002 8:47 pm
Greg -- I'll pass your request along. I do believe they are planning a documentation release, but I don't know when. According to him, there are commands that...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 4, 2002 6:10 am
Well, my DSL network provider went Chapter 11. That makes three in less than 15 months. First PSINet went belly up. They willed me to CAIS/Ardent, a...
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John Smith
mosmith9
Aug 4, 2002 1:48 pm
Hi Bob, Believe or not, thanks for sharing the story. It is frightening how complex this stuff can become and I'm glad you were able to puzzle through it. A ...
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Steven Laderoute
sladeroute
Aug 4, 2002 3:11 pm
HEHE I had moved about ooo 2 mouths ago so i thoght i would try DSL (Verison). I host Web Application on my box and could not find out why no one could get to...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 4, 2002 3:24 pm
... Idiots. They apparently believe that the web is a one-way medium for delivering sales pitches, using "entertainment" as the hook to get people to view the...
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Steven Laderoute
sladeroute
Aug 4, 2002 3:32 pm
Bob Denny wrote:> Turns out Verizon has block all port 80 trafic Idiots. They apparently believe that the web is a one-way medium for delivering sales pitches,...
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rockn83
Aug 4, 2002 9:48 pm
Is the ascom standards.org site still active or is it just temporarly down? I have been trying to go there all day and just get WEB SITE NOT RESPONDING. I am...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 5, 2002 1:00 pm
It was down apparently for a while Sunday. My sincere apologies. Did you see my message about changing over from NAS to Cox for connectivity? I came bnack from...
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kstew98772@...
rockn83
Aug 5, 2002 4:49 pm
Thanks Bob, I will go check it out. There were serveral sites that I couldn't get to Sunday. I thought they were just getting a lot of traffic. Thanks again ...
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Ajai Sehgal
ajaisehgal
Aug 5, 2002 5:00 pm
Cross posted from the Gemini Users Group FYI. Ajai ... From: Ajai Sehgal To: Gemini_Users@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 9:55 AM Subject: Re:...
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cjl023
Aug 6, 2002 1:12 am
As long as we are cross-posting :) Just to be clear. What I have "thrown the towel in" on is trying to creat a COM object using Java. It's just not worth it....
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 6, 2002 3:06 am
... I did. I love Java, but the combination of interface problems, dependence on MS libraries and VM, and the big problems deploying it to a wide range of...
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cjl023
Aug 6, 2002 12:08 pm
Bob, I think that we are on the same page on all of this and I'm not trying to fight a Unix vs. Microsoft battle either. That is an old and tiring battle that...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 6, 2002 1:46 pm
Hi again -- VB is now VB.NET. It's still capable of creating "old fashioned" COM/Automation stuff though. But you are actually closer to USING the ASCOM stuff...
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cjl023
Aug 6, 2002 2:00 pm
Bob, I'm aware of VBScript and cscript. That's what I used to test my Java/COM object :) But could you easily create an ASCOM driver in VBScript? I don't know...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 6, 2002 2:45 pm
You actually -can- create an ASCOM driver in VBScript or JScript. Check it out, it's called a Windows Script Component. My original vision for ASCOM included...
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C. Faranda
cfaranda24
Aug 6, 2002 2:55 pm
Hi Bob, I've been following this discussing about VB versions. Are the older versions like VB 5.0 Pro up to the task? I ask because you can get these at ...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Aug 6, 2002 3:12 pm
I would not mess with VB5. It has a lot of problems with COM/Automation, and other bugs. Get VB6 then apply Service Pack 5. VB6 dates back to 1998 I believe....
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cjl023
Aug 6, 2002 3:15 pm
Bob, Thanks for the info. I'll check it out. One word of warning about VB.NET that I was told about. You can't just compile your old VB programs with VB.NET....
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cjl023
Aug 6, 2002 3:22 pm
Chuck, I checked out half.com It's an interesting site. One funny thing though is they have VB.NET Standard for $107.63 You can buy it from amazon for $79.99...
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cjl023
Aug 6, 2002 3:57 pm
Bob, One other thing about VB.NET I forgot to mention earlier. Applications written in VB.NET will not work on Win95 (Not sure about Win 98 yet) and you HAVE...
