TRAKBOX UPDATER version 1.06 32Bit version COPYRIGHT --------- This program is FREEWARE. It may be copyed and distributed as you like, but it is forbidden to annyone to sell this program for money or proffit. GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- This program is most usefull toghetter with WISP. It is called from out the shedule in GSC and updates the trakbox kepler-data if needed and the time. SETTING UP THE PROGRAM ---------------------- If you recieved the program in multi zip files, then unzip those files to a directory you like, or a disk. Then close all aplications running in WIN95 or NT. Select start, then RUN, and now browse to the dir or disk where you've unzipped the files. Startup SETUP. Now the program will be fully installed. The setup is forseen of the needed DLL and OCX files needed to run the program, however if you should get an error message of a missing DLL or OCX file, contact me and I will send it over. Now, first run the configuration program TBCONF.EXE. Here you can setup the : TRAKBOX SETTINGS, Com Port : here just fill in the com port of your computer wich is connected to your trakbox Baud Rate : her you will propebly fill in 9600 UTCoffset : the difference in your computers clock and the UTC time. UPDATER CONFIG. Path kepler files : this is the path where the program can find your orbsXXXn.ele kepler files Last kepler file : this is the last kepler file the program has found, you can alter this if you like. OPTIONS Update kepler : when this option is marked, the program will update your keplerdata if needed Update time : when this option is marked, the program will update the timeclock of the trakbox. As you like you can only update the time or the kelerdata or both. If all those settings are set to your needs you can use in WISP the shedule in GSC to run the program when needed. Most effective settings in the shedule is to setup the shedule as follows : Event information Name : Update Trakbox (or something you like) Program : C:\WISP\KEPS\TBUPD.EXE Time : 2 min. (No less) Run : Daily Associate :No satellite Satellite : None Activate : marked Run mimi : NOT MARKED This should do the job to daily update your trakbox. The program also asumes that the FREQ.DAT file can be found in the directory of your kepler files. Of course you can setup as you like, but make shure that the update doesn't start when tracking a satellite, then the program won't update, nothing happens. And when during updating the TrakBox, a satellite comes, you will get an error from WISP. MORE INFO ON THE PROGRAM ------------------------ Once the configuration is set and the updater is runned it will first look if the FREQ.DAT file can be found in the kepler directory, next it will examine the kepler directory for new ORBSXXXN.ELE files. Once this file found, it compares that file with the file LAST KEPLER FILE (wich you can alter in configuration), if this file is newer than the last kepfile and the option update kepler is set, then it will clean up the file and write it to a file CLEANFIL.ELE.This is actually the file wich will be sended to the trakbox. Next the CLEANFIL.ELE and the FREQ.DAT file will be uploaded to the trakbox. When the option update time is set, the time of the trakbox will be updated . Finally the program will write to a logfile called TRAKBOX.LOG in the kepdir, this is a simple text file wich can be viewed or erased by a texteditor. In this logfile you can see what the program actually has donne, also errors will be reported here. When the program is finished no window will stay on the screen. At the beginning of writing this aplication it did, but when closing the program it didn't released the memory used by the program. Maybe a later release will solve this, if there's need for . If you find anny problems or bugs please do report to : Wuyts Erwin Gaston Fabré Laan 166a 2610 Wilrijk Belgium Europe or send mail to Packet : ON7VN @ ON1ANR.#AN.BEL.EU Satellite : KO-23 KO-25 UO-22 e-Mail : world.sat.bel@glo.be