I've got a full working version of the vector movement spreadsheet in excel
for anyone who's interested. Reply privately to this eMail address for a copy
(please note the version you require, I have it currently saved in SYLK
version, so it should import into most excel versions.) It should be up on my
webpage tomorrow.
'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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Mary had a little LAM, It's thrusters all aglow; And everywhere that Mary
went, The 'Mechs were sure to blow.
> At 3:57 PM +1000 6/4/98, ROBERTSON,Brendan wrote:
Greetings again
1. I may be able to use a SYLK version for Excel-Mac and/or
ClarisWorks-Mac and would appreciate a copy - plain/zipped or stuffed.
OOps-found it. Thanks. (I'm doing 2+ things at once)
2. Your new background appears familiar if you have been a visitor to Farseer
Mike's page.
> I've got a full working version of the vector movement spreadsheet in
I don't have the EFSB, but this spreadsheet is not complete for the vector
movement provided for FT. In the vector movement for FT you can: Push, turn,
and thrust Push, thrust and turn Push, turn, and push Push, thrust, and push
Turn, push, and thrust Turn, thrust, and push etc.
Thust you need to provide orders for:
Push Aft, Push P/S, Push Aft, Turn, Thrust, Turn, Push Aft, Push P/S,
Push Aft, and Turn
> 1. Did you actually manage to download it? When I tested, it
It showed as text for me too. I just did a "save as" text and dropped it on
Excell. And it worked.
1. Did you actually manage to download it? When I tested, it appeared as dos
text in the viewer instead of loading.
2. Yeah, I couldn't remember where I had borrowed it from. Do you have the
address? I should acknowledge it. (It does look good though.)
'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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Mary had a little LAM, It's thrusters all aglow; And everywhere that Mary
went, The 'Mechs were sure to blow.
> -----Original Message-----
I have deliberately not included specific orders for pushes & turns, as the
buttons & commands I want to add to the sheet don't work on previous versions
of excel. The spreadsheet is made for working out the resultant movement
vectors from all thrust the ship outputs. To include pushes, you just add or
subtract 90 degrees from the current ship facing at that point of the
rotation. eg. A ship with heading 2 pushes Port 3 MU. Current heading is 60
degrees, minus 90 degrees results in 3MU movement in direction 300 degrees. It
might require a little manual calculation, but the resultant vectors &
velocities are accurate.
If anyone wants to expand the data to include the actual commands, they're
welcome to the hassles of doing so.
'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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> -----Original Message-----
Can anyone tell me how to create the link with a download option? I'm using
Netscape Gold as my web editor.
'Neath Southern Skies
http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
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Mary had a little LAM, It's thrusters all aglow; And everywhere that Mary
went, The 'Mechs were sure to blow.
> -----Original Message-----
On Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:55 AM, ROBERTSON,Brendan
[SMTP:Brendan.ROBERTSON@EMPLOYMENT.GOV.AU]
wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to create the link with a download option? I'm
If you use http: then any browser will download it as text if it thinks it is
hypertext use ftp: or file: in the URL.
I can't get to your page, connection keeps timing out so this is blind advice.
Fatal Error 500
Can't Access Document: http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/.
Reason: System call `connect' failed: Connection timed out.
> At 9:34 AM +1000 7/4/98, ROBERTSON,Brendan wrote:
Downloaded like a dream. (That is an odd thing to say about fodder for an
MS product - but hey, doctors can do that)
Seems to look OK using Resolve (archaic Mac Spreadsheet that is just a trifle
more efficient than XL for my purposes). I'll try it out later.
> 2. Yeah, I couldn't remember where I had borrowed it from. Do you
try http://home.rogerswave.ca/freeman/war.htm
for Farseer Mike's Eldar page. His source is not known to me.
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Tim Jones wrote:
> If you use http: then any browser will download it as text if it
Erm, no... the protocol part of the URL is actually there for a reason: to
define transmission protocol. You can't merrily put anything you like
there (even though NotScape would probably like you to think so).
1) HTML link is simply a reference to another document. It does *not* contain
information what to do with that other document, only how to get it.
2) The browser decides what to do with the document based on the MIME
type. When it can not get MIME type from the server (e.g. ftp -links),
it makes an educated guess.
3) How does the server know what the MIME type is? You guessed it, it
*guesses*, usually based on filename extension. The default for
practically all httpd servers is "text/html" or "text/plain". This is a
configurable parameter called MIME Mapping in your server, but you need rights
to reconfigure your entire server (i.e. your ISP probably won't let you do
it).
4) Even with a correctly supplied MIME type, it is *entirely* up to
the browser/user what it/he wants to do with a file of that type.
So, the correct thing to do is to reconfigure the MIME Mapping to identify an
Excel file as an Excel file. Short of that, you can also hope that more people
would learn to use their right mouse button...