also sorry to hear about your crash, 
what is your OS ?

also could you elaborate on the sharing problem that caused you to
disable autosave?
is it not possible to have different users autosave to different
directories?

Dennis Saputelli

Darryl Newberry wrote:
> 
> Perhaps it's mere academic foolishness to state that, at high speeds, the
> wiring *itself* is a component.
> 
> I guess what I really want to say is what's the point. I would hope that
> everybody who needs to know understands the difference. Certainly all the
> list participants. Another pointless pedantic academic discussion unrelated
> to getting the job done.
> 
> Here's my perspective: I just pulled an all-nighter manually rerouting due
> to a 0.5mm pitch FFC connector that got wired 180 degrees out. I discovered
> the problem at 11PM. By 5:30AM I had the board ripped up, re-placed,
> re-routed and ready for CAM. At 5:45AM when I realized I hadn't saved in a
> long stretch, I hit Alt-F-S. At this, Protel 99SE locked up and the previous
> couple of hours' work was lost.
> 
> Shame on me for working too hard. Shame on me for not hitting Alt-F-S more
> often. Shame on me for not having auto-save turned on because database
> sharing doesn't work right and I didn't want to accidentally overwrite the
> other guy's work...but...SHAME ON PROTEL FOR PROVIDING UNSTABLE, FLAKY-ASS,
> SO-CALLED "PROFESSIONAL" "ENGINEERING" SOFTWARE THAT ROBS ME OF MY TIME aND
> my BEAUTY SLEEP!
> 
> Well, I'm going back to work now. I'm busy designing actual boards for
> actual commercial products that have to be fabbed, stuffed, tested, and
> installed in those actual products over the next few weeks. Y'all have a
> nice time chatting about IPC this and that, m'kay?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:06
> > To: Protel EDA Forum
> > Subject: Re: [PEDA] What does "printed circuit board" mean to you?
> >

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