Hi Richard,
> IIRC there's a free/demo package from IVEX that might do, though
>I don't know whether it's time limited or not....
Thanks, do you have a web address for IVEX (I'll try the obvious of course)?
> What I use for the bread-and-butter stuff myself is the classic
>DOS-based OrCAD v3.22 which works, I find, much better than the
>more recent GUI-based versions.....
I can believe it, I remember downloading one of the very early (if not the
first) versions of the GUI port back in my FidoNet days. ISTR I didn't get
on with it and stuck with "Easy PC".
> If you like the EAGLE stuff well enough, it's not terribly
>expensive....
Yes, I do like Eagle quite a lot. The interface is sometimes a bit obscure,
but I can cope with that....plus there's a Linux version too (wonder if they
do a version for AIX?).
The problem is, that even the "standard" version won't allow me to produce a
board the size and shape I want to. Considering the cost of the
"professional" version, and that I'm doing this purely as a hobby, buying
the pro version is not really an option - hence my original enquiry.
I can do most everything I want using my existing software, but I don't
really want to keep a DOS (or windows) machine running when I switch to
Linux.
TTFN - Pete.
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Received on Mon Feb 21 2000 - 19:20:24 GMT