-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ml> orbitel is another of dave ransom's (RIP) tools like his STSPLUS which
 ml> i still use on a few machines... orbitel takes the TLE files and
 ml> combines them and splits them out however you want but it has a problem
 ml> with memory since it is written in the ancient days with the 64k
 ml> limit... with all my TLEs, orbitel only output maybe 1500 of them
 ml> whereas my project, which is limited only by system memory, outputs all
 ml> 16707 active ones i have TLEs for as well as all 37899 TLEs i have
 ml> available for both flying and down craft... no way that orbitel can
 ml> touch that without a lot of manual help slicing and dicing...

Yep, I can see the reason for writing your software, the 64k segment limit in
DOS was a pain.  I did encounter that issue once or twice.  Back in the TP/DOS
days, I had to use various techniques to work around it. :)


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