> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 07:19:59AM +0200, Berni Joss wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:59:27AM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > > The other method of course is to put these plotting commands in a > > > separate file, called foo.cmd, and copy them into ngspice whenever I > > > want to repeat a simulation. > > > > I have never used ngspice - and failed finding a reference manual in a > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > brief amount of time - but assume it provides an INCLUDE or similar > > Typical disease of some free software "products". The creator assumes > that all people on the Earth have the knowledge necessary to use the > program already inborn.
The SPICE netlister (and specifically spice-sdb) is more of the most extensively documented facilities in gEDA. A simple Google search (keywords "spice geda") will turn up more info about spice-sdb in particular -- and SPICE in general -- than Carter has little white pills. Nothing, unfortunately, prevents total newbies from trying a complicated program for 20 seconds, and then posting a clueless question before trying Google. That's just life. My experience at the day job -- where we make spectroscopic instruments used by PhD chemists -- is the same: Nothing can be made so simple or well documented that a PhD user can't be flummoxed by something obvious. That's why we have a customer support organization staffed by chemistry PhDs who can hold the hands of the educated-but-clueless. This e-mail list serves the same purpose, and I am always ready to post a few links to documentation. However, the clueless user needs to do some more homework, and ask more informed questions before he will get better support. I do tend to answer extensively questions posted by folks who have obviously done their homework first. Finally, I have long hosted a tarball of the full source text of my SPICE document (in LyX format, with a Makefile converting it to DocBook, .pdf, and .html) here: http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/HOWTO/ Anybody interested in pushing gEDA's SPICE documentation forward (rather than complaining) is welcome to grab the source and edit it. I will be happy to accept any and all useful patches to the document. Stuart
