Something else, which has since occurred to me, and which might permit you to
continue using Protel 99 SE on Vista (and without having to resort to using a
dual-boot setup, or an application like Virtual PC or VMware), is to take a
look through the ASCII-format configuration files associated with Protel 99 SE
(contained under the Windows folder, or whatever that folder is now named
within Vista), and see if any of them contain a list of Library files which are
currently "loaded". You might then be able to get away with editing the
contents of that file as required (while Protel 99 SE is not running, and to be
of the safe side, you should make and then keep a backup copy of that file
before editing its contents).
A bit "Mickey Mouse" even if it works (as you would need to shut down Protel 99
SE and then reopen it if you wanted to change the set of Library files after
having previously started it), but it would arguably still be preferable to
other possible workarounds...
Regards,
Geoff Harland.
> Yes that did occur to me, I actually am able to open the library that
> I'm having problems with to do my edits and then save it, however if I
> then try and load the library through the add/remove libraries I get the
> same file not recognized error message and can't load it.
>
> So am I'm kind of at a loss here, it seems to indicate perhaps not a
> problem with Protel but rather Windows Vista, as I have never had this
> kind of problem in Win XP.
>
> I'll play around with it a bit more and see.
> -Casey.
>
>
> > At the risk of stating the obvious, are the Library files concerned
> > of a more recent version than Protel 99 SE?
> >
> > You "should" be able to open any Library files which were created
> > using any *earlier* versions (of Protel), but with the possible caveat
> > that the footprints within them might require some tweaking afterwards
> > (as alluded to within other recent contributions to this mailing list). But
> > I still wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised if you encountered problems
> > while trying to open any Library files which had been created using any
> > more recent version instead; the format of such files probably would be
> > of an "unexpected" nature to the Pcb Library server provided with Protel
> > 99 SE.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Geoff Harland.
> >
> >
> >> I just got a new computer which of course came with Vista, P99SE
> >> installed fine and seems to be working alright, but then I tried to
> >> install some different PCB libraries and it keeps saying unrecognized
> >> file format, so I can't load them.
> >> I went through several libs to try, including some of the Protel ones,
> >> but again same error, has anyone else run into this?
> >> Some of the things I tried is running Protel in different compatibility
> >> modes, but again same problem.
> >>
> >> Casey.
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