> One last thought, several people have pointed out that certain classes of
> equipment will be exempt i.e. Military, medical etc but if all the
assemble
> companies have switched to lead free who is still going to do lead based
> assembly (and at what premium)? I know that once we have gone lead f
> Most of the major Japanese manufactures have been lead free for over 3 or
4
> years, I guess there reliability is so good as you haven't even noticed
the
> difference ;-)
You're right, I haven't noticed the difference in a measly 3-4 years. I
also haven't bought much consumer gear in the past 3
Rene:
> your wish comes too late.
No, I've been wishing this for years ;-)
I have not checked the EU rules lately, but IIRC they have some exemptions
for industrial, medical, and military equipment. Since our products are
used in these areas, I think we fall into this category. If anyone has
l
Hello, all:
I was wondering if there are any easy, quick tests to determine if solder
has lead (Pb) in it, and what the approximate concentration might be. I
don't need a quantitative lab analysis, just a yes/no. A vendor told me
yesterday that their process has been lead-free for over a year no
> Hence the question "Where is everyone getting SP2 for Windows XP?"
Bittorent, P2P, etc.? ;-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Joe Sapienza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesda
I've done a 5-layer PCB before with no problems with warpage, and it's a
fairly big board ( about 10 x 5 in. ). The trick is to not have much
unbalanced copper on that extra layer. In this particular board I am
referring to, it was an existing design on a 4-layer PCB, and the customer
wanted a cu
> Will selling a "shrink wrap" version of the software cannibalize some
> of your "high end" sales? Probably. But were those customers "willing"
> upgraders or did they feel the pressure of using a now orphaned product
> (ala Microsoft, Autocad to name but two)? Instead you split the market
> into
I'll second Tom's favorable opinion of 99SE, and add my own comments.
I don't find the 99SE database annoying, my main concern with it is I wonder
if the DDB files will be readable in the future by any non-Microsoft
database tool. That could be a problem, if DDB files are never documented
or prop
Is it a network printer that is no longer available? I've seen Protel crash
because of this.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Ian Rozowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: We
> I remember when Protel bought "NeuroRoute" from Gene Marsh (?) At the
time,
> which was not that long ago, EVERYONE was saying it, NeuroRoute, was the
> best thing since sliced bread.
>
> What happened?
Well, we found that bread is very fattening (lots of carbs)! And unless you
eat the whole gr
> I'm the guy still using Protel 1.61 (1992) with Windows 3.11 and I'm on
> a phone linenow that you're through laughing my question is - my
Look on the bright side - the new virii and worms that plague today's
systems probably won't affect your old system. Most of the vulnerabilities
they ex
> > Alternate version: The light at the end of the tunnel is probably an
> > oncoming train.
Lyrics from a John Fogarty song: "The light at the end of the tunnel was
just a burglar's torch". How appropriate for these times...
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.c
If it's a networked printer, I've seen Protel crash when trying to print to
a non-existent (or not properly configured for sharing) network printer.
IIRC, it was a HP printer that wasn't visible on the network that caused the
crash.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotron
> I don't have Protel 2004 yet, so I haven't seen what is required for
> activation. Am I to understand that the new activation must be done
> on-line? On the system Protel 2004 will be running on?
Every time I install some piece of software I suspect might "phone home", I
yank the ethernet plu
> Also, in the advanced tab, check off 'Digital only'.
In this context, "check off" means to put a check mark in the check box,
right?
Oh, the ambiguities of common expressions. Has anyone seen that episode of
the Simpsons, where Dr. Nick Riviera's ether tanks are burning and he says
"Inflammabl
> Oh, come on... Horses smell much better than a City Bus firing up in
front
> of you while your stuck behind him on the southbound freeway.
And that's when I dive for the "air recirculation" button on the dash.
Doesn't work too well on my Caddy convertible, though.
I said I prefer car emission
> I have multiple computers. I like Windows XP, but I'm continuing to use
> W2000 on the majority of my computers. I bought Office XP. I can only use
> it on this computer. I see no good reason for this. I'm a single user, my
> use of the software in multiple installations would not increase the co
> Is driving a car more complex and difficult (higher processing load) than
> riding a horse? Why do most of us not use horses to get about? Why did
we
> (the community collectively) decide to skill-up and learn to drive a car?
> So we can get places faster, basically. (Come on Ivan I am sure you
> Could be sampler noise from an enabled line in. IE, PC speaker input,
Line
> in, CD audio in. I have not analyzed SB live in detail because it is
unable
> to play audio without adding pops / clicks in general.
You could be right, I didn't think about that. I'll have to check the SB
Live mixer
so, the whole unit has only 3 fans and it's super quiet.
> (1 on cpu, 1 on video card, 1 on power supply, Altera's Quartus does
> accelerate the fans considerably when compiling jobs which take more than
5
> minutes.)
>
>
> _
> Brian Guralnick
>
>
>
> I'm glad to hear someone has had good luck with ASUS. Some time ago I
went
> through several ASUS 400MHz CUSL2 motherboards, different CPUs, different
> brands of memory, different power supplies, and everything else to try to
> stop random crashes. It wasn't just with Protel either. I finally
> I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the
peripherals,
> 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid
> controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by
Asus
I bet that 24bit/96KHz sound that's on the mobo doesn't sound so g
Mike:
Thanks for your review of 2004. It's good to hear something positive about
Altium and their products, for a change. Keep us posted as to which new
features are the best and if any are "gotta have".
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Me
> existing product in the areas that the existing users use, Protel has
> shot itself in the foot. That would not have been so bad, except for
> the fact that their foot was in their mouth and the head stuck up their
> rear ends when they shot.
Let's see, the head is up in the rear end, the mouth
> Respecting the issue of "too many trees" for Manuals, When I got my
initial Release
> of DXP, I got a manual that was just over 3/8" thick that was an absolute
joke (I am
> once again restraining myself to keep it clean here in the forum), that
was totally
> worthless, and very soon actually obso
> could be flaky hardware. Get a comprehensive memory test program.
Such as memtest86: http://www.memtest86.com/
It's free and it's great. And it's essential to use on modern PC hardware,
which gets closer to the edge and more fragile every day.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
webs
> Just a suggestion folks.When you vist sites like TI.com, and when you're
> looking for footprint info, I would urge you to take the extra 1-1/2
minutes
> to urge them to provide such support...
>
> this is the addres of ti's suggestions box...
>
http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/symfoot/requestedc
> Well, remember that only publicly-traded corporations can be
> "bought out" by force. A privately-held corporation that doesn't
> want to be bought, can't be bought.
I wasn't commenting about whether or not they wanted to be bought. It's
entirely conceivable that the owners of a legit company
> if it is what it seems to be i will repeat that i think that altium
> should just buy them and integrate it
> after all that was neuroute's biz strategy
Be careful what you wish for - you might get it.
Seriously, when a firm with a great product gets bought by another firm, it
usually has detri
> 2.8 has that option also. Under Options preferences unclick Nearest
> component and it will list the possibles.
Wow, someone else who remembers 2.8 better than I do. Hot dawg!
I still keep 2.8 around for the occasional PCB that needs to be manually
optimized for parts placement and routing on
> The only drawback with this approach is that when selecting components
within the footprint > you get the `popup select component dialog' more an
inconvenience than anything else.
Consider it a "feature", not an inconvenience (or bug). It's better for
Protel to ask you which object you want, ra
Laurie:
I assume you are using 99SE.
I stack components like this all the time. IIRC, there is a design rule
that allows components to touch. Set that rule to "allowed". If you want
to enforce that rule for all other components, create a component class
(i.e. "TouchAllowed") where all componen
> MS internet tools may be the primary targets of hackers, but all software
> I've used stinks and could be targets if people get mad enough.
Yeah, I can't think of ANY company that has done more to piss people off
than Microsoft. They have made few friends and many enemies over the past
20 years
IMO, this is a BUG in 99SE. This has happened to me before, and
fortunately, I noticed it before having the boards made. No, DRC will NOT
find it. I ended up not using split planes, and added another plane
instead. BTW, the 99SE autorouter will automatically make the same mistake,
that is, plac
Maybe Altium is still using "illegal Java" (Microsoft's JVM) in their web
pages?
> Call me hard headed, but I don't use IE or Outlook (in any of it's
> forms) and have no problems with viruses, trojans, etc. MS internet
> tools are the primary targets of hackers and they have plenty of holes
> to
> Some people have found that if they make enough fuss, if they are
> unpleasant enough, they will get a desireable response. It does work
> sometimes, but I think the costs are too great.
That's what the expression "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" means.
Sometimes, though, the squeaky wheel g
> My wife's business was using Quickbooks as book-keeping software.
> Quickbooks was lacking certain features that existed in another program,
> MYOB. Since I was frustrated, in particular, with how Quickbooks handled
> inventory transfers -- and I did all the book-keeping -- I decided to
> switch.
> DRC would be happy, but a properly configured ERC would not. I always have
> ERC report unconnected pins, and I nail them all down: if there is a
> deliberately unconnected pin, I place a No-ERC directive on it, which from
> then on suppresses the ERC report.
That's what I do too. It's not just
> > What's common about a hammer and a pipe wrench?
>
> A pipe wrench can be used as an emergency hammer :)
They also have a common user interface - the handle :-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Thomas" <[EMAIL PRO
> It is right that there is a sucker born every day, but you can not build
> a business plan counting on selling only to suckers. You need to be
> able to sell to your existing customers and Altium seems to be
> specializing in alienating them. I have personally prevented the sale
> of 3 seats of
> I have seen more companies release software products
> before they should have been released full of all manner of bugs. Look
> at Microsoft. It almost seems like they deliberately put bugs into
> their products, but I know better. It is a market-driven economy, so
> they have to release their
> This then reduces to the old question of how Protel treats pads with the
> same name. If you start with a fresh board, no netlist loaded, and you
> place the parts, then load the net list using Netlist load, the last
> behavior I saw was this:
IMO, the way to treat the "double-pin" scenario is t
y, December 03, 2003 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: Low price on 21" monitors
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> snip
>
> > Uh-oh, nostalgia trip coming on (muST FIGHT IT, ARrrghh,
> > can
> I just did a 'webquote' from them and they are EXPENSIVE!!!
They made you scream. Maybe that's why they are called "Screaming" ?
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Tony Karavidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Protel EDA Fo
> That's true, the power on surges are pretty stressful. I was thinking
about
> the heat build up from leaving it on 24/7. I suppose you could leave it on
> all night (like Brian stated with the contrast cranked) and then power
cycle
> it a few times a day.
Let some time pass during the off-state
Hello, all:
I've got to give a preliminary PCB placement to a customer. Of course PDF
can be made, but is there a free Protel viewer that he can use? If so, what
is it, and where do I get it?
Thanks, and happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.ba
> Leave the lawyers out of it. They are the cause of 1/2 the world's
problems
> anyway. The only thing lawyers will do is drain money from Altium, and
we'll
> be paying for it with more expensive products.
Literally true. I have a saying:
"There are only 2 reasons you need a lawyer. #1 is if yo
> More importantly for you, Nexar will pioneer a new approach to electronics
development something that we are calling LiveDesign. LiveDesign
capabilities, which are incorporated into the DXP platform, support
real-time communication between the engineer and the design...
Real-time communication
> What a do know is the 200,000 ALU shares I own are
> now half what I paid for them with only 2 cent
> div for the last year, the IPO was at $2.00 so they
> have lost several hundred million of shareholders
> money..
Ouch! Sorry about your loss. But that sounds about typical for tech
invest
> Reading over the annual report, I realise the matter is a tad complicated,
> because of the existence of Altium Ltd as the parent entity and then other
> companies owned by Altium. On first glance, however, the position of
> Altium, even though losses are shown for fiscal 2003, seems to be quite
Brian:
I get a HTTP 404 error message and some French language error message when I
click on the links to get the files.
Parlez-vous France?
Nope. Just English, C, Basic, X86 assembly, and rusty ancient Latin.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Origi
> You also will learn how the top vendors are doing their VeriBest :)
> to drive prices up and how there are no new entrants
And that in the face of the rising Free and/or Open Source phenomenon.
Sometimes I get the feeling that it's just a last-minute money grab: Grab
all the cash you can while
> Only the 24 bit converter can handle RGB. Remember, 24 bit RGB means 16
> million valid colors. 24 bit component (YUV) means only 3 million valid
> colors, that's why head end broadcast quality use 30 bit color component,
> which gives them around 170 million valid colors.
Head end? What does
I'm sure no use of the autorouter was made with these boards, eh? ;-)
30-bit video ADC? I assume that's 10 bits each for R, G, and B ?
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel
My experience with the Protel autorouter is with Advanced Route 3.1 (Protel
2.8, 3.X) and the integrated router in 99se. Don't know about 98 and DXP.
>From what I have seen, both AR 3.1 and AR 99SE can quickly produce 100%
results which are acceptable on low to medium-speed digital boards, if the
> OEM licenses may be legitimately cheaper because they may represent lower
> support costs, plus being, closer to wholesale.
Support? What's that?
I am serious. It's been a long time since I looked at Microsoft's support
policies. I know you don't get support from MS for an OEM version, they
ject: Re: [PEDA] Open source SP7
> At 10:14 AM 10/22/2003, Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
> >Note: I am not against MS in principle. If I could buy a full version
of
> >W98 or 2K for $39, I'd do it. But $299 is just too much for software
that
> >should be priced as a
rom: "Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Open source SP7
> Mr. Baggett, one of our fine and helpful writers, here manages to
seriously
> confuse some
> Isn't spam wonderful? ... it makes our lives so interesting. Any day I
> expect that $30 million to be wired into my account, and I get 20%, and
all
> I had to do was be helpful to this poor relative of a dead dictator I
> promise I'll share it with all my friends :-)
You have no friends
> I believe it is a driver issue. I haven't seen the display problem in
> years. I'm also using a Matrox G450, but I've reinstalled windows several
> times over the years and I don't remember if the drivers were taken from
> the Matrox CDROM or some other source.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Keep ins
Yeah, I get the broken schematic wire thing on my workstation too. Using a
Matrox G450 video card.
If you like Protel 2.8 and don't see the benefit to 99SE, then by all means
stay with 2.8. I still use 2.8 occasionally, for the pin swapping feature.
When manually optimizing routing for a 2 layer
ge -
From: "Jon Elson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Open source SP7
>
>
> Bagotronix Tech Support wrote:
>
> >>Ivan,
> >>
> &
?
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Dwight Harm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 3:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Open source SP7
years.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "JaMi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "JaMi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 20
> When Altium tried to go to a maintenance fee arrangement, we screamed
> loudly enough that they backed down. If there were a maintenance fee, we
> would have a much better chance of getting service packs How much
would
> we be willing to pay for continued work on 99SE? My guess is that if we
JaMi:
Did you mean wierd "silence" or wierd "science"? It works either way ;-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "JaMi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "JaMi Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Protel Devel
Mike:
How would you do this? Unless you have the source code for 99SE and
Altium's blessing to make it open source, I don't see how you could make
99SE open source for a SP7. I assume you mean you would write add-on
utilities for 99SE, and your add-ons would be open source? I'm not sure
that ad
http://memtest86.com
It's da bomb...
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Jon Elson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Protel 99SE hangu
up to. My department head is an
engineer and a good guy. We'd have new stuff if it were up to him.
>
> Our interns love Linux, but the PHB (pointy-haired boss) won't let them
install it--even if it is their own copy.
>
> We are all pretty creative around here--it's
> My company won't upgrade computers, much less software. Getting a new
copy of Windows even is like pulling teeth. Our interns work on one P266
(two people). I wish there was an upgrade for CEOs.
Maybe it's because Windows' purchase price and licensing terms are so much
less tolerable than the
> Well ... 32-bit software is 65536 times as good as 16-bit software isn't
> it? Altium should be charging you $131 Million to upgrade.
32-bit software can also contain 65536 times as many bugs, right? ;-)
Oh, boy, I can hardly wait for the 64-bit software coming soon! By your
standard, to upg
> You mean something like this:
>
>
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1
&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6058192.WKU.&OS=PN/6058192&RS=PN/60
58192
>
Brian, you thief! You pirate! How dare you design an illegal descrambler
box! And you had the aud
> Enough! surely!
>
> Hasn't anyone got real work to do?
In THIS (U.S.) economy? What do you think? ;-)
All kidding aside, yes I have real work to do. But sometimes it's good to
blow off steam, and one way to do that is through creative writing and
humor.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix
> I am somewhat surprised at your stance above when it comes to what an
> Employer seems to "owe" an Employee, or what an Employee has the "right"
to
> be able to do at the expense of his Employers time and resources.
>
> But then again, quite possibly you only consider this where other
Employers
>
> There are a whole new class of statutes which have been appearing recently
> (or at least getting a lot of attention in recent years), and that is in
the
> arena dealing with the areas of "illgotten gain" and "unlawful
enrichment".
> I am not quite sure that these areas deal only with the civil a
> Sure, you should work for your employer when he's paying your salary.
> But, I have
> heard of so many cases where a guy who designed aerospace parts, for
> instance,
> thinks up an idea for a better fishing reel, on his own time, and ends
> up having to
> give all profit to the employer. (Ther
> Yup, but the old days had entire boards covered with DIPs to do what I
> can do now
> with ONE very pedestrian Xilinx Spartan chip. And, if there is an error
> (there is
> ALWAYS an error or two) I can fix it in the configuration of the FPGA,
> and don't
> have to even hack a trace on the board,
> I can solder 0.5mm (19.685 mil) SMT IC's by hand no problem. BGAs are a
different story...
I can do that too. And my hand can slip, causing a solder bridge to an
adjacent pin. It's a PITA to clear away that solder bridge from those small
pins.
Oh, how I long for DIP and 50mil SMT packages. I
> It probably makes more sense to buy the parts yourself, and find
> a part time person who can assemble it directly under the guidance
> of the person who designed it.
That's true if all you are using is TH or 50mil SMT. For smaller stuff and
BGAs, how do you do that by hand with part time help?
> Can anyone tell me how 3d PCB viewer know, what type of capacitor (axial
or radial) use?
> I see all capacitors like "axial", but I know, 3d viewer can "radial" too.
> Thanx.
Sorry I don't have the answer, I'm just curious how well the 3D PCB viewer
works. I've never tried it myself. I seem to
> >[...] not me but 3 of our team members with new machine of P4 2.4Ghz on
> >WinXP decide to leave 99se for Protel 2.8 and that included my superior
> >who is fluent with Protel because he was "grown up" with it since his
> >colledge days.
>
> Let's put it this way: why one would do so is a comple
> I would not accept this. 99SE is relatively mature and in a properly
> configured system is stable. Windows 98 has known resource problems that
> make 99SE less than satisfactory with W98 -- though usable, if one runs a
> resource monitor and takes care not to run out of resources -- but with
> W
> Or, improve on the motherboard chipset heatsink. This problem only
reveals
> itself in the warmest of summer months. AC doesn't seem to help, don't
know
> why. Maybe it's humidity & barometric pressure.
What a robust design - NOT!!!
I have an Asus twin-PIII mobo (CUV4X, IIRC). It works fine
>My PCB does not have any fine traces. It's a pure CMOS class A audio
amp
> and power supply. 3-4 traces are 25 mil wide (audio in), everything else
is
> at least 50 mil wide, mostly 250 mil wide.
Pure class A, eh? Those are the best sounding space heaters I know of ;-)
When you say CMOS,
Choong:
My suggestions:
1) You may have a boot sector virus, or perhaps some other wacky software
has installed data or code in your master boot record (on the C: drive).
Some programs use copy protection schemes that do this - recent versions of
Intuit's TurboTax programs do this, and it's cause
The trick to avoid auto-junctions where you don't want them is to make sure
that endpoints of wires (and pins) don't intersect with any point on another
wire. This means you have to be careful about how you place wires. Once
you learn this behavior, it's not a problem.
The problem with turning a
It seems Mr. Watts has invented an e-mail oscillator ;-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Brooks,Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Protel EDA Forum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: [PEDA]
> internet connection resumed, the problem came back. Like a fool, I
> demilitarized 1 PC on the network, and within 5 minutes, I received my
first
> pop-up ad. No IE, or email running, just a blank Win2Kpro system after
> booting. Now, the network hiccups disappeared, but I was open to viruses
> Damn this list server is nearly completely broke, I posted a reply this
morning and still haven't seen it show up yet, approx. 8 hours later. I
haven't had one message cycle through the listserver in less than 5 - 7
hours in the past couple of days. No volume of posts and it is slower than
it eve
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
- Original Message -
From: "Ian Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:43 AM
Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT: DB9 RS-232 s
> Pins 2, 3, and 5 only - If I wanted all those handshake lines, I might as
> well use a parallel interface.
If there is any chance you may be using a wireline modem or RF modem, you
should consider putting DCD (Data Carrier Detect) in also. That way you
know when you have a valid carrier. So RX
Your peripheral is supposed to be a "DCE" (Data Communications Equipment), a
DB9F wired as:
1 DCD
2 TX
3 RX
4 DSR
5 GND
6 DTR
7 CTS
8 RTS
9 RI
The above DCE mates with the PC connector, which is supposed to be a "DTE"
(Data Terminal Equipment), a DB9M wired as:
1 DCD
2 RX
3 TX
4 DTR
5 GND
6 DSR
> There are tools to redirect a printer port so you just get a postscript
> printer in the windows dialog (that happens to be a physical XX printer).
> You can also easily set up a linux printserver that appears as postscript
> printers to the windows network pc's, and does the ripping and printing
Phillip:
I already checked the www.linuxprinting.org website. No support for Toshiba
P351 in CUPS or Foomatic. They don't even list the Toshiba brand at all.
If I knew how to write a printer driver for either Linux or Windows, and it
wasn't too difficult, I'd do it and give the printer driver a
> I have no patience with people
> who spout off unsubstatiated, illogical, and incorrect garbage, reagrdless
> of whether it offends the ears or eyes of the current priveledged class.
Are you referring to Hippies, Liberals, or the Green Party? ;-)
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
webs
> What's your point? That people should be diplomatic no matter what? Yeah,
> right. Diplomacy is a two way street buddy. I have no patience with people
> who spout off unsubstatiated, illogical, and incorrect garbage, reagrdless
> of whether it offends the ears or eyes of the current priveledged c
Yeah, I have tried several Epson LQ models with negative results so far. An
IBM Proprinter emulation worked, but gave ugly results. The Toshiba P351 is
a 24-pin dot matrix, and IIRC the IBM Proprinter was 9-pin. When using
Proprinter emulation, the Toshiba gives the same ugly results as a real
P
> I've got a question on Wrico Pens and Linen . . .
>
> : - )
Well, as long as we're going off the deep end, I have an old Toshiba P351
(circa 1986) 24-pin dot matrix printer (wide carriage) that still works
great. But no W2K drivers exist for it. Win95 has a Toshiba driver that
works well, but
Personally, I don't mind seeing questions about DXP on this list. It's good
to know what the issues are with DXP, because it gives insight as to how
mature (or immature) DXP is, and if it's worth upgrading to. I can't answer
any DXP questions because I don't have it, but I at least want to know o
My experience with split planes in 99SE is that it doesn't work if you
autoroute the board.
I had a design about a year ago that I was initially going to use split
planes on (3.3V and 5V nets on the same layer). After placing the split
planes, using the autorouter would result in the 3_3V and 5V
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