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Hi. I just downloaded the updated outersys.ssc file, the one that adds the name Eris for the former 2003 UB313. Or rather, I went here:
http://celestia.cvs.sourceforge.net/cel ... tersys.ssc
And then I hit "download" on the latest version, resulting in a bunch of text showing up onscreen in my browser. I opened the version of outersys.ssc in my Celestia/data folder in WordPad, block-copied the updated version, pasted it into the file in WordPad, and saved it. Then I opened Celestia, only to find that most of the trans-Neptunian bodies are missing. Eris and Dysnomia are there, along with 2005 FY9 and 2003 EL61. But there's no Sedna, no Varuna, no Quaoar, Orcus or Ixion, none of the others. Neither are the moons of EL61. I rechecked the download, and their entries are all still there. The ones that are present are the first four entries in the file, but everything afterwards is missing.

I'm looking over the file to see if there's some symbol after the entry for EL61 that would prevent the program from noticing the rest of the file, but I don't see anything there that isn't present after the previous entries.

Is anyone else having this problem? Can you tell me how to fix it? Thank you.

Try using right click "Save target as" or "Save link as" on the download link. That should download it to your computer without opening it in a new browser window.

Starshipwright wrote:Try using right click "Save target as" or "Save link as" on the download link. That should download it to your computer without opening it in a new browser window.

Thanks, that fixed it... though I still don't know what was wrong with it before.

When you pasted the text with Wordpad a "^M" character was placed at the end of each line. These characters are not visible with Wordpad. If you opened that file with emacs you would see them. I found that when these characters are present, unpredictable results follow. The actual file when downloaded with "save link as" or "save target as" does not have them.

i have had a simaler prob whem moving scripts from win to linux , those darn odd( windows) carage returns <cr> . My prob was i flip-floped between visual stuido ,scite and mingw