Re: gEDA-user: newbie questions

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 4, 2005, at 2:49 AM, Ron Crummett wrote:
> I am an electrical engineering student and will be taking a class in 
> communication circuits next semester.  My teacher has told me that we 
> will be working a lot with WinSpice and, well, those first three 
> little letters tell me that I probably won't be doing much of THAT on 
> my Debian machine.  So...

  Ugh.  I'd complain.  You are, after all, paying for it.

  In the past few minutes, I've downloaded WinSpice and run it 
successfully under WINE.  It seems to work fine.  My WINE installation 
is plagued by nasty font problems which I cannot seem to solve, but 
this shows up in everything, not just WinSpice...so I suspect that, if 
you can get a correctly-working WINE installation, it'll be fine.

  So you don't have to go a-googling, here's where to grab 
WinSpice...it's a free ~6MB download:

  http://www.ousetech.co.uk/winspice2/html/download.html

  Myself, I use ngspice under Solaris and MacOS X.  I've not read much 
about WinSpice, but assuming they've not bastardized it, I'd imagine 
you'd do fine with ngspice.

  What I'd do in your shoes (after complaining to the school that 
someone is ramming Windows down my throat) is get and build ngspice, 
install WINE, and get WinSpice running under WINE.  Try to do your 
class stuff in a nice native ngspice installation first, and if you 
have trouble, you can always fall back to WinSpice under WINE.

            -Dave


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