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Chipmunk Log upload to sunsite
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Jan 28 14:38:02 1995
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 20:23:44 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Paul Stoffregen <paul@ece.orst.edu>
Subject: Chipmunk Log upload to sunsite
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Keywords: electronics, CAD, X11, binary, sources
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Approved: linux-announce@tc.cornell.edu (Lars Wirzenius)
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I uploaded a Linux binary of the CalTech Chipmunk Log tool
to sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/Incoming. It should
eventually move to /pub/Linux/apps/circuits. Log is an
electrical schematic entry and digital/analog simulation
cad program, with a nice easy-to-use X11 interface and
continuous simulation displayed right on the schematic,
even as you draw it.
The tar file includes a Linux binary and the original
source code. The CalTech Chipmunk CAD Tools are
distributed under a modified GPL with clauses added
to specifically protect CalTech from liability.
Here's most of the README.Linux file I included:
---------------------------------------------------
This is a source and binary for the CalTech Chipmunk log
schematic entry and digital/analog simulation program. The
other CalTech Chipmunk tools (wol, wolcomp, mosis, netcmp,
view, and until) are not included.
Why this little source/binary... well, it used to all compile
back with gcc 2.4.5 and kernel 0.99pl14, but something has
not maintained compatibilty (gcc I think), and many Linux
users like to download working binaries in any case, even if
it would compile without any trouble. The modified GPL
requires source be included.
[snip, basically, you untar it as root from / ]
Unfortunately, the binary only seems to work when it's
located in /usr/chipmunk/bin. If you're trying to force
it to exist in some other location, I suspect you'll have
to figure out how to make it compile again. When I
originally compiled it using gcc 2.4.5 with kernel 0.99pl14,
it built without any problems.
The binary is linked to the older XFree86-2.1 libs, and
it only seems to work in 8 bit per pixel. It does run
using XFree86-3.1, if the older libs are also installed.
[snip, stuff about removing the source code directories]
To run it, add /usr/chipmunk/bin to your path, or make a
few symbolic links from /usr/local/bin (which is what I did).
You type "analog" or "diglog" to run it with either analog
or digital simulation and the appropriate component libraries.
There is no mixed-mode simulation, it's either all analog or
all digital. Good Luck.
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