What You Should Have In This Distribution
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KEPS.EXE
KEPS.CFG
KEPSMAN.EXE
KEPSMAN.XTR
WINPKEPS.TXT

What This System Does
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KEPS.EXE is a server that scans all downloaded bulls for Keplerian
elements in NASA format. Any that it finds are saved in a
user-designated directory. They are saved as one element set per file.
The format of the file names is <catalogue number>.KEP. Existing
elements with a more recent epoch date will not be overwritten.

If you don't know what Keplerian elements are, and you don't know what
sort of bulls are likely to contain them, PLEASE don't bother to install
this system - you will be wasting your time!

KEPSMAN.EXE is a WinPack "extra" program. It is available from the
WinPack File menu and allows you to view your list of Keps, delete them,
prune them by epoch date, sort them by either satellite name or
catalogue number and output all the Keps or just a selection to a file
for importing into tracking programs, etc.

PLEASE NOTE!! Because KEPS.EXE scans *ALL* downloaded bulls, there is a
slight performance overhead. On a DX2/66 it isn't at all noticeable, but
it might be on slower PCs.

Installation
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Put KEPS.EXE and KEPS.CFG in WINPACK\SERVERS\BULLS. *YOU MUST* edit
KEPS.CFG and put in it the name of a directory where you want to keep
the Keps. If you don't do that you may get in a big mess! This directory
MUST exist.

Put KEPSMAN.EXE and KEPSMAN.XTR in the WINPACK directory. Restart
WinPack and you should find a "Keps Manager" option on the File menu.

The Server In Use
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The server is totally automatic. If you download bulls using Auto-BBS
that contain NASA format Keps and they don't start accumulating in the
directory that you have specified in KEPS.CFG, then you have done
something wrong - so read these instructions again!

KepsMan In Use
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When you select "Keps Manager" on the WinPack File menu, KepsMan should
run and present you with a list of the Keps that are in the directory
designated in KEPS.CFG. NB - it assumes KEPS.CFG is in the SERVERS\BULLS
directory. If you haven't put KepsMan in your main WINPACK directory, it
won't be able to find KEPS.CFG and the list will be empty!

Controls:-
Click on the list to select or deselect element sets.

"Select All" - select all the elements in the list.

"Select None" - deselect any selected elements.

"Delete" - delete all the selected elements.

"Sort Cat.No/Sort Name" - change the sort sequence for the list.

"Output" - output all the selected elements into the named file, so they
can be imported into tracking programs, etc.

"Count" - shows the number of element sets in the list.

"Prune" - delete all element sets with an epoch date older than your
PC's current date minus the number of weeks specified.

Disclaimer
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I'm not really "into" satellites, so if this system proves to be fairly
useless, all I can say is - sorry!


Roger Barker, G4IDE
G4IDE @ GB7OPC.#22.GBR.EU
roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk

Jan 1997

