i've tried to find what i want in the docs without luck. (i've read eric raymond's and rick moen's notes re asking questions.)
my background: i've worked as an electronic bench tech and have held several different kinds of jobs in the "computer" industry (sys adm, programmer/analyst, documenter for developer products (APIs and such) and data centers, taught intros to C, perl, python, and other languages). product and platform i've got geda 1.6.1.2NNNN on ubuntu linux 10.04 (laptop) and dragged three simple components with connections into a circuit (seems the "wires" are properly connected), a battery, a potentiometer, and a voltmeter: battery + to top of pot, bottom of pot to battery -, voltmeter between wiper and bottom of pot. problem as i see it what i want to do is to activate the circuit by setting the battery to some voltage value and the pot to some resistance value and read the voltage difference between the wiper and the bottom of the pot. here are points of detail: * it's possible the software does not allow such emulation. does it? * i cannot find a tutorial that presents something close enough that i can infer out of it. * i cannot make sense of some of the important terms in the docs that i've found (extants, attributes...). * the help menu shows choices for gEDA docs, but no local help files appear (i guessed that maybe the choice activated my browser, but no). * the geda web site ( http://geda.seul.org ) mentions ways to contribute but without apparent links that let me access contributors (i believe i can help with user docs and possibly be a reasonably useful tester). first-cut attempt to communicate after some effort i've found this (and other) mailing list. i'm trying this list first before disturbing the flow of the developer's list (which i'm willing to do, but after reality checking for community expectations and good manners). if anyone can help me with the above points i'll be grateful. thanks, jim _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
