> The data files in the format which we may distribute > are not modified in essence. starplot comes with a conversion program to change > them to its own format, I guess this is done once by a seperate conversion > program and not on the fly when loading for performance reasons, so the > converted files could be seen as cache files. You are right, Hans. To avoid distributing the *.star files, because they are modifications of the original catalog data files, StarPlot generates them during installation using: $ starpkg . --dest /usr/share/starplot starpkg is basically a wrapper shell script invoking starconvert. Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list