<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 21, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Tony Rick wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Tony Rick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tonyr42@gmail.com">tonyr42@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>There is a C++ implementation of both SPG4/SPD4 here:<br> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><a href="http://www.zeptomoby.com/satellites/" target="_blank">http://www.zeptomoby.com/satellites/</a> <br><br>- tony</div></div></blockquote><div><br>There appears to be a plethora of stuff for this effort already out there.<br> See, for example, <a href="http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html">http://www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html</a>, which is<br>apparently already a Debian (and Ubuntu?) package.<br><br>- tony <br></div></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>Server-sky mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Server-sky@lists.server-sky.com">Server-sky@lists.server-sky.com</a><br>http://lists.server-sky.com/mailman/listinfo/server-sky<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Yeah, put me down for muscles over brains. I was after I converted the program (mostly done with "f2c" so nothing particularly amazing) I was poking around and found the other code. It's already done and presumably tested, so that's the place to start.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a bit funny, but even the official Project Space Track C++ version is "FORTRAN spoken in C++." It's transliterated from the original language, preserving the clunky calls and global variables.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>--MAZ<br></div></body></html>