[Kstars-devel] Binary File Data and Associated Tools

[Akarsh Simha]

Hi

Based on inputs from James, I created binary star data for
KStars. Please find the binary star data and associated tools to make
sense out of the binary files in the .tar.bz2 archive available here:

http://members.bas.org.in/akarsh/binary.tar.bz2

The archive extracts a directory called binary/ that has the following
files:

* allstars.sql - SQL dump of table used to create the binary files

* mysql2bin, mysql2bin.c - Program to convert data stored in the MySQL
  DB into binary files

* binfiletester.c, binfiletester - Program to verify and read out data
  stored in the binary files

* README.fileformat - a very short, incomplete and outdated summary
  describing the file format. [Does not describe the trixel indexes
  table]

* names.bin - Please ignore this file. Accidentally got into the
  archive and I'm lazy to remove it [Only 64KB] :)

* namefile.bin - Binary file containing name data associated with
  namedstars.bin

* namedstars.bin - Binary data for named stars

* unnamedstars.bin - Binary data for unnamed stars

* datatomysql.pl - Perl script to put data stored in stars.dat into
  the MySQL database. You will need to modify the username and
  password inside the perl script to correspond to your server.

Regards
Akarsh