Re: gEDA-user: newbie questions

[Ron Crummett <rcrummett@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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.

I know this post is a bit old; I just finished my finals for the 
semester so I've been a bit busy.  I think that using WinSpice under 
WINE might work well, but I can't seem to get WINE to work.  I know that 
this isn't the place for help using WINE, but could you point me in the 
right direction?  I find the documentation on the winehq page difficult 
to understand.

>   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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