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Re: PADS software

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From: Ron Harding
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:00
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In article <1992Aug28.205445.16138@news.dfrf.nasa.gov> disbrow@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov writes:
>I just got the PADS-PCB and PADS-Logic and associated libs off
>some FTP site.  Problem is it won't install.  Seems it needs to
>be installed from a floppy, but I get an error message something
>like "Can't find file, maybe not in your path".  Has anyone had
>any similar problems?  It doesn't tell me which file it can't find.
>Any help will be much appreciated.

I had the same problem.  When you unpack the archives, you must use the
option that tells the archiver to create directories.  "-d" or something
like that.  They really should document this better, and they really should
provide a more meaningful error message.

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From a local computer call-in show:	|  Ron Harding
Q: I hear all this talk about base      |  rbharding@descartes.waterloo.edu
   memory, expanded memory, and         +------------------------------------
   extended memory.  What is the difference, and why don't I have them on
   my Amiga?
A: Well, the Amiga doesn't offer you that kind of flexibility...
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From: rbhardin@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Ron Harding)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: PADS software
Keywords: PADS schematics
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Date: 31 Aug 92 17:00:55 GMT
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