Re: gEDA: which netlilster option , spice or spice-sdb

[Al Davis <ad62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:19 pm, David Grant wrote:
> I know you are an old hack at this...but what do you mean by
> "transfer."

I use spice-sdb to extract a netlist from the schematic, then 
run the simulator interactively.  If it needs an ".include" or 
similar mod, I add it manually.

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:19 pm, David Grant wrote:
> Using tclspice doesn't require any simulation commands to be
> in the netlist file itself. But when I use LTspice I need to
> have .include simulation.cmd which includes the simulation
> options like .ic, .tran, .op, etc...

If you must use LTspice, hack it manually, make an awk script, 
or whatever.  LTspice is not designed to be compatible, except 
with PSPICE.

The gEDA project should not support it in any way, except maybe 
to study it as competition, or to provide a migration path from 
the LTspice proprietary schematic format to gschem format.  
gEDA should not provide a migration path to LTspice.

No-charge proprietary software is our biggest threat.