directory\ |
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| programme | |
| Util | Various useful programs, namely the Graph_d, CutBE and ASCII |
| ASCII | Displays an ASCII table with decadic or hexadecimal numbers |
| B2D | Babylonian to decimal conversion, like dd:mm:ss to degrees |
| CutBE | Output is a part of input file starting and ending at some % of its length |
| Dec2hex | Decimal to hexadecimal number conversion |
| Fa2Ce | Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion |
| fit2dbf | *.FITs to *.dbf conversion,
for ASCII tables FITS files |
| GFDate | Sets the date (or even time) of a file (files), e-mail or general ones |
| Grafik | Graph from a text file (for PostScript or LATEX ouptut use Graph_d). |
| Graph_d | Graphs and histograms from dBase files and from really text files. (Offers finding symmetry axis, polynomial regression, PostScript and LATEX outputs.) |
| Hex2dec | Hexadecimal to decimal number conversion |
| Interval | Julian date, or two dates and a time interval between them |
| ISBN | A check digit of an International Standard Book Number |
| Key | Displays a number code of the pressed key |
| NumFont | An overview of numbered Borland Turbo Pascal fonts |
| PrnToFil | Redirects prints to a file |
| Psychro | dry and wet temperature to humidity |
| Rel2Abs | relative humidity and Celsius temperature to Humidity Absolute |
| ShowFont | Shows a named Borland Turbo Pascal font |
| Slohni | Redirects <Ctrl><PrtScr> (copy of a text screen) to a file
instead of prn |
| TestSpee | Number of different operations per 0.01 s |
| Transmis | Fraction of light transmitted through a layer of glass at various angles |
| Text | Various programs for handling (changing) text files (or nearly-text). Programs off*.pas (not listed here) put away various ANSI (escape) sequences -- this is for cleaning terminal log files. The most useful files are: |
| CS_code.txt | Explanation of coding of special characters of the Czech and Slovak languages |
| CS_Conv | Converts (Czech) diacritics to another code table or (ev. partly) discards it; works also for dBaseIII+ files and for T602-editor ones. Decoding XXEncoded files, making character-occurrence tables. |
| CutTrBla | Cuts away trailing spaces (empty ends of lines) |
| Dis_Comm | discards comment lines from a *.ps file |
| HR2Par | inserting \par
or <p> at hard returns
or <p> after blank lines |
| LF2CRLF | UNIX-type text file to MS-DOS-type one |
| In32_127 | Checking the file on being directly e-mailable |
| Nons2bla | Repairing texts: character 255 to 32 (blank), or any to any |
| vlnka2 | replaces spaces by \ after specified one-letter
prepositions
or by ~ (default) (a slight modification of Vlnka.pas, offered by
CSTUG[16]) |
| Astro | Astronomical programmes |
| Dif2Rat | Difference of Faintnesses / 1 mag -> Ratio of Brightnesses |
| Ecl2equ | Ecliptical length and width -> RA and declination |
| Equ2ecl | RA and declination -> l and b (ecliptical longitude and latitude) |
| Equ2gal | RA and declination -> galactic longitude and latitude |
| F_GCVS | Information on a star from the General Catalog of Variable Stars (GCVS) |
| Faint | Faintesses of stars from a matrix of their comparisons, rough work |
| Fai2Bri | Faintness (and distance) -> brightness and energy domain |
| Fourierm | Frequency diagram from data of a special format, in Czech, by Leos Ondra |
| Grid | Meridians and parallels for a rotational ellipsoid, like Jupiter |
| Hel_Cor | Heliocentric correction (a quantity used for variable stars) |
| Lum | Luminance expressed both standardly and in a queer astronomical way |
| Map_mGSC | Plots a star chart (from the Guide Star Catalog as packed in MegaStar ver. 3) |
| Map_wire | Length of deformed main circles in ``true-polar-distance'' maps |
| Moon | Lunar ephemeris ( daily | main phases only | eclipses only ) |
| Mul_fai | Faintness of a group of stars from faintnesses of its members |
| Nights | Times and azimuth of Sun passing a given angular height |
| Noci | Times and azimuth of Sun passing a given angular height, a Czech version |
| Padi | Angular distance of two points (or stars in the Bright Star Catalogue) |
| Planet | Positions of Planets (in the old sense of word, including Sun and Moon) |
| Posi | Positions of a body from elements of its heliocentric trajectory |
| Pre_d_bj | Example of precession from B1950 to J2000, for file Planets.dbf |
| Pre_g_bj | Example of precession from B1950 to J2000, for file GCVSred.dbf |
| Preces | Equatorial coord. of a star: original frame (B1950) -> new frame (J2000) |
| Rat2dif | Ratio of Brightnesses -> Difference of Faintnesses / 1 mag |
| Sol_Temp | Radiative balance - temperatures on insolated bodies |
| Star_pos | Angular height etc. of a point (or star in the Bright Star Catalogue) |
| Star_tim | Time of reaching an angular height (for fixed stars, planets, Sun, Moon) |
| Sun | Julian date, sidereal time, position of the Sun |
| Sun_ph | Equinoxes and solstices |
| Sundial | Planar sundials and Insolation of collectors and windows |
| Time2JD | Writes Julian dates (or MJDs) into a dBase file |
| Tr_bin | Trajectory of a visual binary star |
| Var_Dif | Writes average departures, their standard deviations and changes into a list of comparison stars and then writes the faintesses into a list of comparisons |
\Map_BSC |
Program Map_BSC and the related stuff for bright star maps |
| Map_BSC | Plotting Star Maps from B5_cd.dbf, obj.dbf and planets.dbf |
| Scale | Times versus dates, a scale for zenith star maps (Czech, LATEX) |
| Scale_v | Times versus dates, a scale for zenith star maps (*.eps, vertical) |
\CCD |
Programs for Santa Barbara Sci.Instruments Group CCD cameras: five working ones for the ST4 camera (but not much checked) and a draft viewer for the ST7 camera and FITS images. |
| FITSstVw | Displays a CCD image from ST7 SBIG camera or a FITS 16-bit image |
| pCCD1 | Draft program showing a CCD image by ST4 and a MegaStar GSC map |
| S4 | Displays an image from Santa Barbara ST4 CCD camera |
| S4df | Subtracts dark frame from an image by ST4 CCD camera |
| S4fa | SBIG-like ``Flat-field'' transformation of an image by ST4 CCD camera |
| S4fs | Natural ``Flat-field'' transformation of an image by ST4 CCD camera |
| S4m | Measures a stellar image from Santa Barbara ST4 CCD camera |
\Min |
General program for predicting periodic phenomena, but with just one-purpose data; by Rudolf Novák. |
| Min | Times of extrema of variable stars (of eclipses in eclipsing binaries) |
| Fun | Programs for J. Hollan's children, demonstration and educational trifles |
| Doppl2vs | Conversion of acoustic interval into vehicle velocity (with sound demonstration) |
| Doppl2v | Conversion of acoustic interval into vehicle velocity |
| Doppl | Sound of a body on a circular orbit: hearing the Doppler effect |
| Morse | Beeps letters in the alphabet of Morse |
| P | Screen writing with script letters (scaled by + or - key); Czech code |
| Piano | Plays tones given by keys; <Shift> makes them a halftone higher, <Ctrl> lower |
| Play | Plays a melody from a simple text file (see Melodie.txt) |
| S | Screen writing with SansSerif letters (scaled by + or - key); Czech code |
| Tada | Adding and subtracting excersizes, conversating in Czech |
| TadaN | Multiplying and dividing excersizes, conversating in Czech
|
| Screen | Setting video modes, various tests and operations with graphic screens. The most useful programs are: |
| Vmod | Setting video modes of VGA cards (standard, VESA 6a, card-specific ones). A crazy screen can be often cured by: VMod 3 |
| VmodV | Setting video modes of VESA-obeying SVGA cards |
| Tisk | Czech and graphic print on an old large dot printer CS 212-25, controling Epson printers (in Czech). The only program for standard printers is: |
| Setlpt | Controls printers using Epson language, in Czech |
| Units | Units for programs used by Jan Hollan |
| Angles_O | Angular and matrix operations, Opening text files |
| Binaries | Information on a binary star from Binaries.dbf |
| DbBridge | Reading, writing into and creating dBaseIII+ files (based on an old program by Milan Drá¹il). |
| FtBridge | Reading FITS tables/images |
| G_scree | Printing (not in PCL), saving and restoring a graphic screen |
| GCVS | Reads a record from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GVCSred.dbf) |
| Graph_m8 | Graphic interface: simultaneous PostScript/LATEX file, stars, graphs |
| Graph_tx | text replacement of unit graph (very simple, only
outtext does something) |
| HdConv | Conversion from decimal to hexadecimal and vice versa |
| Mbox | Rectangle of any size and orientation, movable by cursor keys |
| Params | Decoding usual parameters of programs by J.Hollan, common help-consts. |
| Params_G | Same as Params, for programmes using graphic mode |
| Planets | Ephemeris (helio/geo-centric) of 10 ``planets'' and Sun-orbiting bodies |
| Precesse | Changing the equatorial coordinates due to precession of the Earth axis |
| Regress | Polynomial regression (without weights) |
| Solar_ut | Calendar, time, some astronomical co-ordinate transformations |
| Str_num | String operations, Numeric conversion, Babylonian digital systems |
| Un_str_m | String justification and conversion, date and time de- and en-coding (a substitute for parts of Unit_Str from Power Tools by Blaise Computing) |
