My new Unix Astrolog upgrade from Valja's version 5.41g to version 5.43a features

• Compiles on 64-bit Linux and OpenBSD systems Astrolog is now ready for the 21st century...
• Local Space Charts ( -ZL option with -X and =YZ)
  Here is Julia Robert's Local Space chart in pdf format.
  It was created from the file julia-roberts.ast
  The ps2pdf command comes with GhostScript.
  Here are the Unix/Linux/OpenBSD commands I used to create it:

  $ astrolog -i julia-roberts.ast -Xr =YZ -ZL =YN -Xu -ge 640 640 -Xp0 -Xo julia.ps
  $ ps2pdf julia.ps
    

• Local Horizon Clockwise (=YZ option) This option will make the azimuth figures clockwise from north (NESW) instead of counterclockwise from east (ENWS).
  Especially for Local Space charts, or celestial navigation, set the =YZ option.
• Display Synodic Period (-HS option) information for planets
• Bug Fixes
  PostScript files are closed properly on Linux/BSD/Unix systems.
  Unix '~' converted to HOME environment variable.
  Parsing input latitude minutes is fixed so that 122w8 is now interpreted as 122w08 not 122w80.
  Other minor fixes and lots fewer compile warning messages.

Download astrolog543a.tar.gz for my latest version.

Download astrolog543a.zip for my latest version. (untested on Windows)
 
Version 5.42a Changes

107. Bug fix - Close PostScript files properly so that they are created and Astrolog does not blow up.
     (xdevice.c)
108. Display extra synodic period information on -HS option.
     (charts0.c)
109. Set the JPL ephemeris as the default ephemeris. DE406 is available from http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?planet_eph_export
     (swephexp.h)
110. Bug fix - On Unix convert tilde '~' found in filepath to value of HOME environment variable.
     (sweph.c)
111. On Unix Put sleep() in main loop so that Astrolog does not hog all spare machine cycles.
     (xscreen.c)
112. Bug Fix - Right justify single digits in time/latitude/longitude
     In an input file was a longitude of "122W8".
     Astrolog was interpreting that as "122W80"...
     (io.c)
113. Add -ZL option (with -X) for Local Space charts
     (astrolog.h)
     (astrolog.c)
     (charts0.c)
     (data.c)
     (xcharts0.c)
     (xcharts1.c)
114. Bug fix - set altitude of South Node when -YN switch set
     (calc.c)

115. Add warning message when ephemeris file not found.
     (sweph.c)
116. undo change 109 and default to the Swiss Ephemeris
     (swephexp.h)
117. Fix change 112 - Right justify single digits in time/latitude/longitude. The final size was not increased by 1 each time a zero was inserted so 3:8PM became 03:08 (and AM...)
118. Display warning when files like atrolog.dat are not found.
     (io.c)
119. Search for environment variable ASTR5_42B not ASTR5.42b which is an invalid variable name under unix.
     (io.c)
120. Add -Wall option to c-compiler options and now generate lots of new warning messages... Time to clean up the code a bit.
     (makefile)
     (makefile.unx)
     (xcharts0.c)
     (xcharts1.c)

121. Bug fix - String variable too short SzT PrintWheelCenter()
     (charts1.c)

122. Convert to 64 bit and make everything "clean" compile.
     Change all variables of type "long" to type "int".
     Change many variables from type "byte" to type "char".
     (swephlib.h)
     (swephexp.h)
     (extern.h)
     (swedll.h)
     (swejpl.h)
     (sweodef.h)
     (sweph.h)
     (astrolog.h)
     (data2.c)
     (data.c)
     (astrolog.c)
     (io.c)
     (calc.c)
     (charts0.c)
     (charts3.c)
     (intrpret.c)
     (intrpalt.c)
     (xgeneral.c)
     (xcharts0.c)
     (xcharts1.c)
     (xcharts2.c)
     (xdata.c)
     (general.c)
     (matrix.c)
     (charts1.c)
     (xdevice.c)
     (charts2.c)
     (swe_call.c)
     (swetrace.c)
     (wdriver.c)
     (xscreen.c)
     (sweph.c)
     (swejpl.c)
     (swephlib.c)
     (wdialog.c)

123. Display seconds in times of transits to charts.
     (astrolog.h)
     (charts3.c)