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We at Wright State recently received a tape containing Splice circuit
simulator source from Berkeley EECS/ERL.  It is the UNIX version
intended to reside on a VAX 11/750 running ULTRIX 32.  There have been 
more than a few problems with trying to compile the source and run it.  
The Splice package comes in three parts: a preprocessor (blt), the 
processor (splice), and the post processor (splot).  Each part is an 
individual program.  I could not get the second and third parts to 
compile without making source code changes (which, of course, might 
be very dangerous), but this is a moot point.  The preprocessor, blt 
(for Berkeley Language Translator, not the food item), compiles, but
attempts to run the compiled blt yields the following results.  I've 
tried running both the example circuits on the tape and local circuit 
descriptions.  Both attempts produce the same result.  I get the message

     inpos: Error reading initialization file

followed by several

     w: element name already used

followed by

     w: element type must be an identifier

followed by other assorted error messages, then an illegal instruction
is encountered and core is dumped.  It should be noted that the blt
ratfor source WAS modified to indicate the location of the blt
initialization file, splixx.

I did notice that the version number on the blt code was version 7.2,
while splice ans splot are version 7.1.  I sent some email to a Berkeley
address found in the midst of the blt code describing our problems, but
so far it remains unanswered. 

So, what to do?  Has anyone out there had similar problems?  What did
you do about it?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks in
advance.

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Jerry Birbal   jbirbal@wright.{CSNET,UUCP}   ...!cbosgd!wright!jbirbal
Computer Science Department, Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435        
513/873-3512