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> In a message dated 8/20/2002 12:54:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> techsupport@bagotronix.
Re: [PEDA] to DXP or not to DXP,
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> If this is the best that a trained Situs user can produce, I am not
> impressed at all. I wonder what the yields of these designs would be in a
> real production environment.
Situs - sounds like "Klytus", the evil henchman of Ming the Merciless in the
Flash Gordon fiction.
Well, I consider my
> Yea it is my only Compaq, and maybe my last. Compaq may be smarter than
> the rest of the industryThey have built hardware speciifially to run a
> specific OS. Sounds like an Apple Computer doesnt it?
Making crappy proprietary hardware, becoming reviled in the industry for
poor quali
Mike:
I hope that one Compaq is the only one you ever bought. I had one some
years ago (PII-266) and it was absolute junk. Yes, Compaq does make
proprietary version of Windows for their PCs. How smart is that - a
proprietary version of a proprietary OS? Compaq does everything they can
to be
ed with his patents for the "secured
PC"
> may make it virtually impossible for any competing OS to exist if the
"secured
> PC" catches on.
I don't disagree with your statement. But if this were to happen, it would
be suicide for the U.S. tech industry. We would inst
Don't you need a Mac to run OS-X on? I'm not interested in Macs. Art
services drive me crazy with their incompatible Apple file formats. Every
time I get some ad art done, I can't even open it on my own PC. Besides, I
can't stand those goofy cases some of the Mac models use.
I take it that OS
> >Also, any e-mail software that I might switch to must be supported under
> >Windows and Linux, because I am trying to phase M$ out.
>
> Very ambitious plan. About when do you expect to have M$ phased out of
> your company? ;)
When W2K is no longer sold or supported. At that time, we would e
I used Eudora for a while when I first got online back in the mid-90's.
That was back in Win3.1 days.
I'm a cheapskate, and don't want to pay for e-mail software such as Eudora.
Also, any e-mail software that I might switch to must be supported under
Windows and Linux, because I am trying to phas
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> > From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Glad to know AOL isn't part of the problem! Yes, it can be a pain when
> you
> are away from home, but the spammers are drowning us in garbage.
Yeah, we get tons of spam too. No, we don't use AOL, MSN, hotmail, or any
of the notorious spam magnets. Typically 50 - 90% of the e-mail to our
sal
You need to make sure YOU don't have a virus. Some of these viruses can
rifle through your address book and send e-mails without you knowing about
it.
Best regards,
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Oops, I hope the (un)subcriber automaton doesn't think I want to
(un)subscribe just because I replied to a subject line that had
(un)subscribe in it. Keep me in here!
Best regards,
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From: "Gareth Bradley" <[E
Gareth:
If you really have 99SE running on Linux, don't unsubscribe! Stay
subscribed so you can keep us updated on how it goes. Lists aren't just for
gimme, gimme, gimme, you should give some too. If you can't stand the flame
wars, just delete the messages without reading them. Works for me.
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> > From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL
$900 !!! Wow!!! (new subscriber price) That's 2 car payments, or 400+
McDonalds' 1/4-pounders, or 1800 movie tickets to the local bargain
afternoon matinee theater. Just for some SMT footprints!
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XP Home
>
>
> Get WinXP Pro. No activation thingy. Wait a sec, other than the
> graphics, it's identical to Win2K Pro, but double the price. You are
> right, Microsoft is a P___k.
>
>
> Brian Guralnick
>
>
> - Original Message -
> Fr
Why don't they watch where the DXP message traffic is (here)? Instead of
where they wish it was (there)?
Seriously, I don't have time to register for all the variant lists that some
may propose, i.e. the list of all Protel 99SE users who never owned v2.8,
are thinking about upgrading to DXP, but
> As for market forces on software prices, I'm going to do my part. I'm
> done buying any new Microsoft OS's after Win2K (due to their licensing
> and privacy policies) and Altium (because of pricing/support/utility
> -per-dollar issues). So I guess I may only be one person, but I'm
> voting with
> The personal electronics industry is a freak among industries. You must
> agree with that?
Well, it's a BIG freak, then. So big that it is regarded as the norm by
anyone not in the industry.
> Even in your example lies cable modem service that has gone up and up.
Tell
> me why? They say it's
helps prevent
mistakes. When you give schematics to a tech, they need to see explicit
power pin connections, otherwise they don't know where to probe.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
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From: "Shawn" <[EMAIL PROT
> i think the time use model is a future certainty, UCITA already allows
> remote disabling of users software more or less at the vendor's will
UCITA may allow it, but my buying policy does not allow it. If I buy a copy
of software I should be able to use it as long as I want to. If a software
No, not everything has gone up. I am surprised that you would make this
claim, being in the electronics industry. Here are some things that have
gone down:
Long distance rates
Cellphone rates
TVs (get a good one for $300 US, they used to be a lot more)
All kinds of personal electronics
Computer
> Microsoft can act like a king.
King Gates: "General Ballmer, how goes the upgrade campaign?"
General Ballmer: "Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
King Gates: "Yes, they are. But how goes the campaign?"
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Rene:
1) Charging people the same amount for one big upgrade as all the missed
upgrades
2) Forcing people buy each upgrade even if they don't want it
1 is functionally equivalent to 2. And vice versa.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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ere are those who have a service agreement ($$$)
> and all the others are new customers that always pay the full
> price.
> There is no obligation to offer a discount, really.
>
> Rene
>
> Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if the software can tell, during
The big gripe about the Imperial/metric issue is "who gets to contend with
the extra digits to the right of the decimal point?"
If the program works in Imperial natively, then using metric means the
metric people have to contend with the extra digits.
If the program works in metric natively, then
I wonder if the software can tell, during installation, which version you
actually had and refuse to install if it's not the "upgrade jump" you paid
for?
IMO, I think it's a shady business practice to charge someone more for an
upgrade just because they skipped a version. That's the same as forc
> >Exactly my point. Nothing can beat a PCB designer with 10 years
> >experience. Computers are simply not smart and not adaptive enough. Most
> >board tools are programmed by people that have never made a board in
their
> >life. And layout people wouldn't be caught dead writing programs.
>
>
> A
The problem is that if Altium moderates the list, they can remove anything
they don't like. I agree with Darryl, open discussion and criticism is very
important. I am amazed at the efforts some companies are taking to squelch
criticism. Not like, by fixing the product, but by other means.
I su
Isn't that about $14,400 USD? If it's full versions, that's a big discount!
Probably much cheaper than buying Protel 99SE (or DXP) and Specctra
separately.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
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You're welcome, Drew!
I DO have those OE options selected (plain text only, reply in format of
original message unchecked) and OE STILL doesn't obey. That's aggravating.
Maybe it's time for me to switch to Mozilla. I already have at home.
I don't have any use for Chinese character sets anyway.
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Forum members:
I don't know how it's happening, but some of the messages posted to this
list override the default fonts on my e-mail program (Outlook Express). I
suspect that some of us have our e-mail programs set up to format message
text in HTML. While this may look neat to you, I ask that y
Or maybe the owner's name is E. (Edward) Nigma ?
(That was the "real" name of one of Batman's nemeses, the Riddler).
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
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From: "mariusrf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTE
My father just recently got a purchase requisition for a dual Xeon P4 system
approved for the CAD dept. at the company he works for. His CAD dept. runs
AutoCAD.
He always asks me what is the current thing. I always say, "why ask me? My
newest computer is over a year old". I tried to recommend
> > > And Microsoft did fix the bug in the Intellimouse drivers
> > before JaMi got
> > his
> > > machine from Dell! The fix drive just did not ship with the
> > Dell machines.
> > >
> > > Updating the Intellimouse driver to the latest driver has fixed this
bug
> > on
> > > every machine I know to
Some of you guys would end up in a bar room brawl over the mouse issue ;-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
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From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:22
> It is company policy that software licences be reviewed here before
> purchase in order to avoid "gotchas".
That's a good company policy. Incidentally, how did you get a copy of the
EULA for Microsoft products? From Microsoft's website:
http://www.microsoft.com/education/license/eula.asp#6
Just guessing, but maybe this mouse morass is Delphi's fault? It may be
true that 99% of other apps don't have this problem, but maybe the 1% that
do are written in Delphi? Sometimes app bugs turn out to be built-in bugs
of the app development system.
Coming to an EDA list near you: Mouse Wars
> Protel is missing a bet by not offering a stand-alone full-featured
> Mechanical
> CAD package based on the 99SE interface. But *Please*, Protel, be sure to
> maintain full two-way file conversion with all ACAD File Formats ever
> released!
Good idea, but not easy - Autodesk loves to change the
See replies below. I promise this is the last thing I'll say about date
format, metric, and voltage for a long time.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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From: "Igor Gmitrovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PR
OK, folks, I know metric is better. I was just joking. But seriously, it
is on-topic when you consider that some electronic parts are in metric, and
some in Imperial (U.S. folks call Imperial "standard", because it IS our
standard). This unit stuff can cause lots of grief because of imprecision
> And you'd prefer times as MM:SS:HH? ;-) Personally, I'm out to get the
whole
> world to adopt ISO-8601, which alows several formats, of which I prefer
> -MM-DD. That will sort correctly whether it's alphanumeric, or
whatever.
I didn't say anything about time format. You just assumed.
Is "O
> Is this what happens when you write software applications "down under"
when
> everyone at Microsoft in Belview Washington is at home in bed and cannot
> answer your technical questions about the software?
Maybe the "down under" has something to do with it? ;-)
>From one episode of the Simpson
Evidently I have much better luck with the autorouter than most of you folks
do.
I have used it on boards ranging from 2-sided to 8 layer. I admit that
there are sometimes things it does which baffle me, but I don't get the
design rule violations like was described in the original post. And I
a
I have used polygon areas as heat sinks before. These were for resistors
and TO-220 transistors.
I don't recall any temperature problems. I would think the semiconductor
would die before the PCB materials would separate or the solder would melt.
You should consider putting a grid of vias aroun
You mean a software license, right?
A seat is something you sit on ;-)
I suppose you want your "seat" to run on a certain "platform"?
BTW, there is a local computer consulting firm called "Geeks 4 Cheap". They
direct-mailed us a postcard ad. The caption: "The Dude who sits here
probably doesn
his screen and liked it.
The
> only problem for me was XP, because I run several other programs which
> require dongles, are not XP compatible etc. Also some missing ports
> (replaced by usb only) are a problem for me .
>
> Matt Tudor , MSEE
> http://www.gigahertzelectronics.com
>
>
You guys are compleat vidiots! ;-)
What happens when you run a LCD screen at something other than it's pixel
resolution? I have seen quite a few laptop screens that don't look good
when running at lower resolutions than pixel-res.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotr
Actually, I use Acrobat 3.0 for printing to PDF files, and have both 3.0 and
5.0 installed for reading PDF files. The reason I still use 3.0 for
printing is that I want to be sure the files I produce are readable by
others who might have only 3.0 Reader. Before I upgraded to 5.0 Reader, I
hated
Jason:
It sounds like you still have to have a Windows installation on the Linux
machine to run Win4Lin, right?
I want a solution that eliminates the need for the Windows installation.
Where you gonna find new licenses for Win98se now? And who wants to give M$
more money for it? Not me (maybe
I have noticed that OpenOffice 1.0 (Windows version) will sometimes crash
when opening a Word document if you do it by double-clicking on the filename
in Windows Explorer. But, if you open the Word document from the File->Open
dialog it works OK.
Could be a file association problem?
If you feel
> didn't occupy a CD as opposed to a floppy. If what you say is true in some
> sectors, then I think it is absurd and anyone hiring based on code size
and
> not functionality is an idiot.
In every field I can think of, there are large numbers of people who affect
the direction of the field withou
I also miss the Edit->Change->Swap Pins feature in Protel PCB v2.8.
I used this feature extensively on some boards that had to be hand-routed
and optimized for 2-layer. It was necessary to:
1) draw a preliminary schematic with connector pin assignments unmade
2) bring it into PCB
3) manually
Tony, the companies you SHOULD be avoiding are the ones that produce bloated
code, give you no clue that the code is bloated, and give you no option to
avoid it. I think there may be another reason PowerBasic has the "option"
to produce bloated code. Imagine this: you are a contract programmer
> you forgot: "Buy this new PCB. It has new features..."
>
> Oops, I forgot, for readers of THIS forum, that's what a) put the bread on
the table, and b) what fuels all of this upgrade stuff in the first place
(not to mention, what goes into that cell phone, automobile, TV, and
computer, the last
See replies below.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] OS bugs WAS: Problems with schem
#x27;s nothing new and spectacular in any
> of these upgrades. I'll live with what I have until the current OS
computing
> crisis ends in a few years. I'm not willing to subsidize M$ any longer.
Maybe this is one reason for the tech recession (or depression, depending on
how you look at
> All of us suffer from these same choices - we choose to use the Windows
> platform, for whatever reason. It may be the most productive (more work
> faster) or it may not - an argument for another day. We accept MS'es
> constant upgrade cycle. We accept buggy code. We accept file format
> cha
> included, or a gross oversimplification, with million amp power supplies
> delivering terawatts to improperly connected transistors. SPICE can
I want some of those terawatt transistors! For 6 cents each in quantity.
And I want them in a SOT-23 package! And throw in Florida Power Corp. for
fr
> Straight-A students, indeed...!? Long ago, when I was first introduced to
> computer simulation tools, I was forewarned: "A fool with a tool is still
a
> fool."
True, and when the tool is a computer, the fool has an "electrified fooling
machine".
Don't get me wrong, I like SPICE and have used
have to buy
a faster computer to speed it up to where you were before. Are
cycle-wasting wait loops being coded into software libraries to slow it
down? It seems that the tech industry would have an incentive to do this.
Slower software begets new, faster hardware, which begets a new OS license
I would do more simulation if there were more and better models for the
chips I want to use. Also, if the simulator software was easier to use (not
talking about just Protel here).
A lot of the designs I work on are mixed-signal, not strictly analog or
digital. It's not easy to simulate these t
Dave:
I just recently did a design using the TOP245. I don't think they have
simulation models, but they do have a free program called PI-Expert you can
run your TOPswitch design on. I think it's a canned SPICE simulation.
It didn't work for me because I used an exotic topology that wasn't par
You, sir, are a certified, bona fide tweaker ;-)
There are 3 computers in this office I absolutely DO NOT mess with:
CADzilla (my workstation), the Linux server, and my assistant's workstation.
Can't risk messing anything up - we've got too much work to do to risk
downtime.
Anything else is fair
> I cant stress enough here, use Ahead NERO CD writer software. If you ever
install Easy CD Creator from Roxio, formerly made by
> Adaptec, I will GAURANTEE mysterious system hangs when occasionally
changing CD, writing CDs, and other weird unexplained
> phenomenon. It's not worth the headache!
I don't know for sure how the license manager works, but I think it probably
uses a UDP broadcast over the LAN to "discover" other copies of the program.
If this is the case, it might be possible to block some UDP ports on your PC
with firewall software. Norton Personal Firewall, perhaps? Each
Hello, all:
We have had our domain transferred to a new ISP last week, so e-mail has
just begun working normally (I hope!).
Anyway, I want to make a PCB that has a "break-off" area with extra
circuitry on it. The idea is that some users may not need the extra
circuitry, so they can break off th
> some system monitors. Looks like XP eats about 100 meg of memory
without
> anything else running. That's real efficient. I dont code but it
should
> use about 10K. I was using NT for the past 5 out 6 years, until
last
> year when I couldnt bear the installation, network setup, an
I agree. I wonder why Protel let the PLD tools wither and die? I seem to
remember about 4 years ago that they bought some HDL tool from some other
company and repackaged it as PeakFPGA or PeakVHDL, or Peaksomething. They
managed to waste that one off.
Personally, I think all those efforts were
I wonder if government folks will ever realize that laws like these only
inconvenience the innocent and catch the dumb. The smart evil folks always
find ways to circumvent these kinds of things. What's to stop someone from
encrypting the real message in some non-U.S.-legal encryption, and attach
I hope they didn't use .NET.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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From: "Edi Im Hof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel under VMware and Li
If it is, my ISP is not complying with it. I just sent myself an e-mail and
it came back with no ID number attached. Must be something
Techserv-specific.
How do we get the terrorists to start using these numbers in their e-mail?
;-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bago
Is this a guessing game? Or do you really need to know what that number is
for?
It's too long to be a UPS tracking # or for any other courier I have heard
of.
It's probably an auto-generated case number from some web help desk
software.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.
> it. So, as a result of my ripping off OrCAD schematic, over $15,000
dollars
> was spent with them (also bought the PLD package). My advice to Protel -
> Make the schematic module non-copy protected, and wait a few years for the
> money to come back in!
Yes, and I'm quite sure that if the BSA pi
> it would be most valuable to me to be able to save protel schematics out
> as orcad dsn files since they are much more widely used than protel
> schematics
Yeah, I have been wondering why that is. Every time I see a "reference"
design for some chip, the schematics are in Orcad format, which I
Rene:
Slightly off topic, but you need a morale boost. Maybe some of us on this
list need one too.
Don't drop out of hardware development if you meet all of the following
criteria:
1) You are good at it
2) You really enjoy it
I suspect you meet both criteria. I saw your website and it look
This must mean that XP trashes application entries in the registry when you
install it. Bad, bad, bad...
Rob, did you upgrade to XPP from XPH, or some older version of Windows? If
you upgraded from XPH, wow man, you have given M$ a lot of money just for
one machine. If it's a new machine, it's
All right, folks, can this fab drawing stuff be summarized in ONE
comprehensive checklist?
I use Advanced Circuits sometimes too. What I have done for their fab
drawing requirement is:
1) choose "graphic symbols" for the drill drawing drill sizes
2) use the board wizard to set up dimension li
Does OT mean Off Topic or On Topic ? ;-)
Best regards,
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OK, you Protel gurus...
What's a "room"? Yeah, I know, it's what I'm in right now. But seriously,
a room just appeared on my PCB after an "update pcb" action. I need to
delete it, but I can't select it. How do I get rid of it?
What are rooms for? If they are for placement, can I get the net
> But there is a better way; once one understands why a no-connection error
> is being found -- the most obvious and common is that the pin is
> intentionally unconnected -- one should put a No-ERC directive on top of
> the error marker; you will never again have to see that error. In fact,
> it's
> by the financial types. Looks like I'm stuck with P99SEsp6, warts and all,
> until that next entrepeneur gets going. Hmmm, my degree is in computer
> science (I started out doing mostly programming), and I've now got a lot
of
> experience designing PC boards so I also know the user side of thing
Hello, all:
I have a double sided PCB about 4 x 4 in. square, supported by mounting
holes, 1 in each corner. I want to pour a polygon ground plane on the top
side. The plane will cover probably about 80% of the board area. There
will be no plane on the bottom side. Am I going to have a proble
day, May 10, 2002 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] round PCB?
> I'm trying to imagine a 'round board going through a wave
> soldering machine.
>
> Jeff Stout
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Bagotronix Tech Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "
Hello, all:
A customer asked us to design a round (circular) PCB for them. We have
never designed a round PCB before. Any special Protel techniques, tips, or
gotchas we should know about before starting? It is not a high-tech board,
single sided only, TH for wave solder assembly, to be
> wrong scale and cost me money, I couldn't blame Altium for poor code.
And what happens when you CAN blame Altium for poor code? Nothing, right?
So what difference does it make who you can blame?
Of course, I you want/have to play the blame game, you could still claim
it's Altium's fault, or L
> I have about one drive crash, physical crash, per year.
> I'm convinced the technology the drives are built on is less reliable
> that 10 years ago. It may be that the pressure to deliver makes
> these companies deliver too quick.
Interesting. My experience is exactly the opposite. I can't re
Yeah, I think ZIP drives are pretty lame now. They were a good idea a few
years ago, but when CD-R/RW came out and got cheap, ZIP drives are dinosaurs
now.
I don't understand Matt's claim that CD's aren't reliable. If you handle
them carefully (don't use them as coasters and keep your greasy fi
I don't use the bar anymore (NOT drinking humor). It is not "portable".
That is, you can't see it in a netlist, and you can't use it in [insert your
favorite HDL here]. Why not use '#', '-', or 'n' as a prefix for
negative-logic signals? The 'n' is portable to every HDL I have ever heard
of (pr
Sorry, Lloyd, this won't help you because it's just a rant, but:
Has anyone heard of any efforts to adopt a REAL universal information
format? I don't mean phony attempts such "EDA frameworks" as we've all been
hearing from marketdroids for decades now, but something like XML? I don't
know much
Here's one for all you 99SE gurus.
I am trying to prevent the autorouter from putting vias within the boundary
of a certain footprint. I tried creating a routing clearance rule: 10 mil
min. between Footprint JP1 and Object Kind via. That didn't work - the
autorouter ignored it. How do I set u
Yes, but not in a way that you will find satisfactory in the Schematic
module. Most of the time you will have to delete and redraw the wires in
SCH.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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From: "SHAWN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Prote
Rob:
>From what I can tell, doesn't P&V store parts data in Microsoft Access
format? If so, did you guys ever try to run a query to produce inventory
costs that were usable by the accounting dept?
We have considered P&V before, but were always hesitant, because we didn't
know if it would improv
If you want to import from the PADS v3.0 (DOS app), you need to import the
PADS .ASC (ASCII) file into Protel v3.X. Then you can save it as a Protel
file and bring it into 99SE or whatever.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
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Fro
Thanks to all the folks who suggested setting the "read-only" file
attribute. I already knew I could do this, but I usually forget to do it
until after I have opened the file, then it's too late!
Just one more thing I have to keep track of, that I shouldn't have to keep
track of...
Best regards
s, and the
> problem with AI now is not really computing power, but the programming
problem.
Yes, this is getting off topic, but it's important for us tech folks to
realize that Moore's Law is NOT a law of nature. It's a prediction. The
law of gravity is a real, physical law o
Hello, all:
I hope Protel fixes this in future releases.
I hate it when I open up a DDB file just to look at something, and it
changes the file date. IT SHOULD NOT DO THAT!
I use file dates to know when I last worked with that project, and this
SCREWS UP that knowledge.
Best regards,
Ivan Bag
> Almost, but not quite. One problem with allowing case difference is that
it
> causes different names, as far as ASCII code is concerned, to have
> identical meaning. If case difference is allowed in names, in general, it
> will cause a different sort order than if it is not allowed. Yes, one can
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