SPICE has no understanding of pin numbers *at all*. Its abstractions are grounded in IC design where you have no pin numbers (at least internally). You'd have to provide a file mapping positional netlist connections to pin numbers. Another advantage of using a *flexible* schematic capture tool rather than a specialized one. In gschem you can specify both pin numbers (pinnumber= attribute) and pin position in a SPICE netlist (pinseq= attribute). I am starting to see the picture now, I am playing with gschem right now on my server. I do see that this is a better way to input if it is going to go to layout afterword, but yes you do pay the price up front to save time using a netlist to help with the PCB layout. It is a nightmare trying to check a complicated layout against a schematic, just praying that you aren't missing anything. I switched over to all Macs for workstations and lappys. The only PC archetecture that I have up and running now is the server that runs FreeBSD. I might want to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on my wife's lappy. I was not able to get X11 to work right with fink. Mac ports seem to support more applications and is more familiar to me since I use FreeBSD. Thanks, Chris Maness
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