Re: [PEDA] Metric problems

2002-08-15 Thread John A. Ross \[Design\]
- Original Message - From: Tony Karavidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Metric problems I was poking around the website today and noticed this in one of the 'items fixed' in P99SE, SP4:

Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint

2002-08-15 Thread Andrew Jenkins
-Original Message- From: Danny Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ... I wonder what conclusion we can draw from any potential benefits of using a thick trace for a tricky trace, but thinning it down when required to get through tight spots? I suppose that might depend on how one

Re: [PEDA] Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread rlamoreaux
But, many of the messages that look like they come from some particular user, actually came from another user who had the first user in his address book. There were some submissions to this list, and some to members of this Klez and some other virii not only rifle through the address book,

Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint

2002-08-15 Thread Joel Hammer
Danny, I have always been under the belief that if you make a part of a trace/track thin you might as well make the *entire* trace/track that width. (holding even more true in power ground runs. in which case the thin run could almost act as a fuse.?) If anyone can share logic otherwise I would

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
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 sales

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Brad Velander
Ivan, according to your profile, you must be my long lost, hereto unknown, twin brother! 8^ Sincerely, Brad Velander. Lead PCB Designer Norsat International Inc. Microwave Products Tel (604) 292-9089 (direct line) Fax (604) 292-9010 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norsat.com

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
And your twin sister too! ;-) Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com - Original Message - From: Brad Velander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Protel EDA Forum' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email

[PEDA] Polygon Plane clearance and SMT PAD

2002-08-15 Thread Shuping Lew
Hello, All, I need to put a polygon plane on the bottom layer. 1. I'd like to set up the clearance of the plane different from the regular trace of the board, which is 12mil instead of 7 mil for regular trace connection. 2. I also like to set up the polygon connects to fan out via instead of

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread matt
that's why in our company we the following policy : -start with preview pane disabled. This allows going through the inbox messages and delete the offenders based just on title and sender. I only open the very few I want. -javascript disabled. -open new window disabled. -open attachment images

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Gilley
At 11:58 AM 8/15/2002 -0400, Ivan Baggett wrote: I have been trying to use Mozilla for e-mail also, but it seems to have a bug that crashes when trying to import large message folders from OE. So I am stuck with OE for now. Ever thought about using Eudora for your email? Frank Gilley

Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-08-15 Thread Abd ulRahman Lomax
At 10:20 AM 8/29/2002 -0400, Narinder Kumar wrote: Protel has no plan to run this new Protel DXP to run under Windows NT. Not a good thing Perhaps. Perhaps not. It is additional work, certainly, to make a program function properly under multiple operating systems. Windows 2000 could be

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
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

Re: [PEDA] DXP NOT MADE FOR WINDOWS NT

2002-08-15 Thread Dave . E . Lewis
DXP not supporting NT is a big problem where I work (Boeing) since we have _zero_ choice or control over the OS. Eventually, I am told we will one day migrate to W2000. Our IT group is pretty lame as a result of a captive customer base and no outside competition. The only thing I can do

Re: [PEDA] Polygon Plane clearance and SMT PAD

2002-08-15 Thread Cliff Gerhard
Shuping: You can add a design rule for Clearance (under Routing tab). Select Object Kind Polygon. Then you can select Whole Board (if you want all polygons the same) or Net, etc. (to apply to a specific polygon). Then type in 12 mils for you clearance. There is a Polygon Connect Rule under

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Gilley
Ivan, I understand about the payingparticularly since Eudora has moved to a new license scheme where your money only pays for the software for one year, I believe. However, even in free Sponsored mode with ads the ad box is pretty small, and can be docked in one corner under the mailbox

Re: [PEDA] Polygon Plane clearance and SMT PAD

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Gilley
Shuping, 2. I also like to set up the polygon connects to fan out via instead of directly from the SMT pad. I don't know of a way to do this, if I understand you correctly. I'm not exactly sure why you would want to do this. As Cliff said, you can select direct or relief connect for SMT

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
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 either

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Matt Daggett
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[PEDA] Klez and fighting spam (was: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!))

2002-08-15 Thread Matt Daggett
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Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Bagotronix Tech Support
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

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Frank Gilley
At 04:45 PM 8/15/2002 -0400, Matt Daggett wrote: Also if anyone is thinking about installing Win2K SP3 better real the EULA very closely. I basically gives Bill the ability to remotely install/remove applications/drivers. M$ apparently is on the same path as our govt in playing Big Brother and

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Matt Daggett
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Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Matt Pobursky
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:45:12 -0400, Matt Daggett wrote: There is always OS-X for you Unix fans.  I have found the Darwin Kernel (BSD based) to be very stable... now if they could only get the driver and application support there it'd be great. I'd love it if Apple ported OS-X to the PC platform.

[PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP

2002-08-15 Thread Upton Charles R CNIN
Has anyone tried to run 99SE on XP? Thanks, Charlie * Tracking #: 33027F7CB3F19443BFD86CBE7FBC2A7462EC61CE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

[PEDA] Apple Tactics (was Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address)

2002-08-15 Thread Matt Daggett
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Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP

2002-08-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
Yes. It works fine. I'm using XPPro -Original Message- From: Upton Charles R CNIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 3:10 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP Has anyone tried to run 99SE on XP? Thanks, Charlie

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Sapienza
yes been been running a copy on XP pro since it was released, no issues whatsoever. - Original Message - From: Upton Charles R CNIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Protel EDA Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:10 PM Subject: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP Has anyone

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Reagan (EDSI)
Charlie, I ran 99se on XP for a while. It really didn't run any better than running on W98. I eventually had to uninstall XP and reload W 98 after experiencing 3 fatal crashes.These weren't Protel related. XP did everything wrong, it crashed, banged my harddrive until I found out how to

[PEDA] Changing default document settings

2002-08-15 Thread Terry Creer

Re: [PEDA] Changing default document settings

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Reagan (EDSI)
TC, Create a blank template for both schematic and pcb then start your design from the template. Mike Reagan EDSI Frederick MD Hi all, A few days ago there was a thread on setting up the default.tdb to set up my default database every time I start up a new database. Is there a way to

[PEDA] David Watling/SWI/Mitel is on leave.

2002-08-15 Thread David . Watling
I will be out of the office starting 16/08/2002 and will not return until 03/09/2002. I will respond to your message when I return - otherwise contact Owen Boyle, Nav Kilaru or Mike Birch. One of them is bound to know the answer.

Re: [PEDA] Changing default document settings

2002-08-15 Thread Dennis Saputelli
sure just put a board in there set up that way we use a couple of different ones Terry Creer wrote: Hi all, A few days ago there was a thread on setting up the default.tdb to set up my default database every time I start up a new database. Is there a way to change the default

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP

2002-08-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
Was your hardware 'approved' to run XP? Did you run that checker on the MS site? Is it only a year old? -Original Message- From: Michael Reagan (EDSI) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:54 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows

Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

2002-08-15 Thread Thomas
Foxmail is (free) non MS email client option. Supports LAN and remote mailbox. -Original Message- From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 August 2002 03:07 To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Spoofed email address (was: (Un)subscribe!!!)

Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint

2002-08-15 Thread Danny Bishop
Joel I appreciate your thoughts, however I don't think I quite got my reasoning across as far as my motivation for thinning down a thick trace in some areas to fit. In this particular case there is one edge sensitive net that goes to 4 logic gates on a board that is otherwise relatively free of

Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint

2002-08-15 Thread Igor Gmitrovic
Danny, wherever you have a change in the inductance, i.e. track width, you will get reflections. In such conditions yo could get standing waves as well, although I don't think that working frequencies on your board are so high to be affected by this. Wider track is equivalent to a broadband

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread bbick
Just to add another note to the discussion.. M$oft just announced that, effective in Sept 2002, none of the Device Driver Development kits for Win9X, WinNT OR Win2K will be available for purchase or download. Now, they are supposed to be moving to a unified driver development kit, but

[PEDA] Default PCB font

2002-08-15 Thread Gareth De Mar
Hi all, In Protel 99SE SP6, when first updating the PCB from schematic, I would like the PCB part designators and comments to take on the Sans Serif font. It seems to default to the 'Default' font, and I have to then globally change all the fonts, despite having the defaults in the preferences

Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint

2002-08-15 Thread Danny Bishop
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Re: [PEDA] Default PCB font

2002-08-15 Thread Thomas
First response, or first helpful response? Because I think this may be a bug, I can reproduce the problem, but not recommend a solution. Sorry, Tom. -Original Message- From: Gareth De Mar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 August 2002 11:58 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint

2002-08-15 Thread Igor Gmitrovic
Engineering is the art of compromise. -Original Message- From: Danny Bishop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 August 2002 11:58 AM To: 'Protel EDA Forum' Subject: Re: [PEDA] Matched Lenghth Constraint h... I guess that kind of goes against the theory that thicker tracks =

Re: [PEDA] Default PCB font

2002-08-15 Thread Gareth De Mar
I've suspected that its a 'small anomaly'. Thank you for your time. Since you are first respondant, I will dilegently consume (on your behalf!) one can of regular strength beer, at happy hour this evening. Cheers again, Gareth. -Original Message- From: Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Katinka Mills
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 August 2002 9:50 AM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address el snippo And, by assisting with the so called Digital Rights Management developments

Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Adams
Yes. It runs great. -Original Message- From: Upton Charles R CNIN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 5:10 PM To: Protel EDA Forum Subject: [PEDA] Protel 99SE on Windows XP Has anyone tried to run 99SE on XP? Thanks, Charlie

Re: [PEDA] Linux and Protel WAS: Spoofed email address

2002-08-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
Do you actually sell hardware? People don't develop hardware because Bill makes it easier on one platform for them. The develop it because there is a potential customer base ready to BUY!! If the whole world suddenly jumped to MAC, you think companies would keep writing device drivers so their

Re: [PEDA] Default PCB font

2002-08-15 Thread Tony Karavidas
Yeah I think it's a bug too. It does 'pay attention' to the designator and comment auto location, so I know the default stuff is partly working. -Original Message- From: Gareth De Mar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:39 PM To: 'Protel EDA Forum'