Thanks for the suggestions! My colleagues have recommended ActivePerl under Windows, and it worked for me: http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?mp=1 . Mark --- Roger <roger@efn.org> wrote: > > Each day I get compilations of TLEs from > Space-Track > > and Mike McCants' classfd.zip. What do you find > best > > to automate these tasks? > > > > * Login to Space-Track > > * Get the whole-catalog zip file (a different name > > each day) > > * Maybe get the TIP upcoming decayers if there are > any > > * Logout > > * Get Mike McCants' classfd.zip > > * Unzip these > > * Merge the TLE files into one big TLE compilation > > * Run the predictions using Rob Matson's Skymap > > > > I could do this all using batch files or Perl > scripts, > > but would welcome any existing solutions! > > > > You mention Perl, are you running linux? > I have a batch script that grabs what I want from > celestrak.com I just > run it whenever I want to update the list. It just > uses wget to retrieve > the data and dump it in a file. > I use gpredict for viewing the predictions. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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