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2014-07-18 , 21:48
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Originally Posted by Whispering Weasel View Post
Looks like the suspicion is correct .The error message now is:
Wrong number (1) of numbers found on line 1 of /usr/share/orrery//orbitalElements/venusElements

I did not purge anything that I know of. Perhaps the locale setting was changed to Dutch when the device shut down and rebooted due to empty battery ( I usually set it to English, In Dutch locale the , is used instead of . for decimal separation and the locale is set to Dutch now). It has been a long time since it was reflashed.
Thanks for noticing this, and taking the time to post it. Other users had problems with this years ago, and frankly I had thought I cured this "." vs "," problem a long while ago. This weekend I'll switch my scratchbox environment to Dutch, and try to find a more robust solution. Maybe I should just convert all the files to binary, rather than ASCII.

It's been a LONG time since I pushed out a new version of orrery. I started doing a Solar Eclipse page, and I just never brought it to conclusion. Doing a nice job on Solar Eclipses will be hard.

I'm very pleased that there are still people using my little app!
 

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