What is saros?
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Saros is a program that enables you to find any solar eclipse in between
about 2500BC to 3500AD. It started out as a school project while I was
at highschool. I realy liked that project so I decided to continue
development and released it as OpenSource software covered by the terms 
of the GNU General Public License 2 (see file COPYING for more details).


How do I install saros?
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Please refer to the file INSTALL for installation instructions.


What is new in version 1.2?
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I've done a lot of code clean-up and removed a lot of unnecessary code
and files. Some parts had to be rewritten to make saros compatible to
Perl 5.8. Error handling has been improved and every known bug has been 
fixed. The output of the text-reports has also been improved. Last but
not least, I've written a small installation routine that uses make.

Since version 1.1 was in fact some kind of development version, there
are not really any new features in saros 1.2. Most effort has been put
in bug-fixing and code cleanup.


What is new in version 1.1.x?
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Versions 1.1.x introduced quite a lot of new features. You can now
get a graphical display of the central line drawn on a world map, and
save the output as pdf, png or jpeg. The so called '180 bug' has been
fixed, now ensuring a correct calculation.



