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rbhardin@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Ron Harding) writes:

>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.

Phew! ...and I thought I was the only one with this problem. I even tried
creating the directories by hand to no avail.
From what I remember, PINSTALL was an .EXE file which unpacked all the PADS
software and PINSTALL and all it's associated files was 'zipped' up in turn.
Should I have typed:
PINSTALL -d  ??

or should I have unzipped them using UNZIP -d  then just run PINSTALL?

Dave

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