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I am a beginner programmer. I thought it would be fun and educational to view the celestia source code. The problem
is that whenever I try to view the code my computer freezes.
Any thoughts out there?

Thanks

I only can assume you are using certain developer tool (Visual C++, Borland C++, etc) that seems to be broken. Please tell us which hardware, Operating system & tool are you using, in order to tune your problem.

Celestia source files are plain text files. If you want to look at them, you can use whatever editor you want (Wordpad...). You cannot test them, but you can see them.

That's all I want but when I try to view through wordpad it
freezes up as well. I am using win 98.

Bug in Wordpad most likely or Win98 runs out of memory.
Try pulling the file to view into your browser window (IE)

What file are you trying to view?
If you're trying to view 'celestia-1.3.0.tar.gz' you need to unzip it first. (winRAR will do it) Once you unzip it, navigate to the src directory and away you go.

As an alternative, an easy way to view the code is with your browser.
Try this.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view ... /celestia/

and this.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/view ... cvs-markup

good luck

I did unzip it and still had the trouble. It was driving me crazy but
your other idea worked fine. Thanks so much I was about to
jump out of my window (i live on the bottom floor)

Thanks