Re: OT: Wheeeeee! New PSpice Benchmarks

From: Ken Smith (kensmith_at_green.rahul.net)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 16:17:46 +0000 (UTC)

In article <pan.2004.08.29.15.01.37.677679@att.bizzzz>,
keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:
[...]
>I've already started down that path. It's been bumpy but I decided when
>I went to Win2K three years ago that it was going the be my (first and)
>last M$ OS. When I put together this Opteron system, I went with SuSE
>9.1. I still have Win2K on the old system while I learn my way around.

LTSpice works under wine (you already knew that)

The old DOS Orcad works under DOSEMU with a few problems. Their ESP
program id daft things in DOS land and they are still daft under Linux.

Open Office works ok for most text and spead *** sorts of things. The
chart function of the spread *** is so slow as to be near useless. I
plan on learning to use gnuplot when I get a little time.

A couple of other useful tips:

On any installed software, in a shell type "man nameofprogram". For the
good ones this display the manual for the program. If the manual tells
you that the manual is obsolete and that you should use the "info" system,
the program is likely to work but may have a bug or two. If there is no
man page, it is very likely that the program is quite buggy.

Old programs, that are well rung out, tend to have "man" pages. The
better programmers still provide "man" pages. So the method works fairly
well.

I'm far from a Linux expert but I've got it to work for me. I use SuSE
8.1. You've got 9.1 hopefully they've fixed the things I've had to fix in
the 8.1 install.

BTW: You can do darn near anything in a Bash script. 

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