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Basically, I was wondering if Host 3.22 treated HYP differently for WinPlan compared to Planets 3.0-style clients (i.e. VPA)... With the clues given and using PCC2 to hyperjump into the corner of a 2x2 square, it appears that this item has been busted.

Ah, now I see where you're coming from.

There are two slightly different formats for turn files, version 3.0 and version 3.5. Version 3.5 is generated by Winplan registered, and can also be generated by PCC, VPA, etc. Version 3.0 is generated by Dosplan and Winplan shareware.

HOST treats 3.5 clients a little different at various places. One such place is waypoint trimming. Dosplan cannot set waypoints further than 170 ly away, and will crash when it sees such a waypoint. This means Dosplan cannot do exact hyperjumps. HOST will validate this and trim waypoints. All other clients don't have a problem with such waypoints.

Before 3.22.019, HOST was doing this before movement. In 3.22.019, it was moved to after movement. That is, you can now use any client (VPA, PCC, VPUtil, Winplan) to set a long waypoint, and you can do exact hyperjumps. Only after the move, HOST will trim the waypoint again, so that the Dosplan viewing the result does not crash.

Source: http://www.mortlakemagic.com/planets4/hst321.htm

--Stefan