The Sattool Manual

Copyright Notice

Copyright © 1999 Tom Rothamel

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Lists of Things
  • 1.2 Command Line Options
  • 1.3 Environment Variables
• 2 Using Sattool For Visual Satellite Prediction
  • 2.1 Predicting Passes
  • 2.2 Filtering Passes
  • 2.3 Displaying The Passes
  • 2.4 Putting it All Together
  • 2.5 The Live Display
• 3 Command Reference
  • 3.1 cat
  • 3.2 writetle
  • 3.3 filter
  • 3.4 marker
  • 3.5 live
  • 3.6 predict
  • 3.7 passes
  • 3.8 step
  • 3.9 summary