<OT> My new Linux User

[Tony Alfrey]

On Sunday 09 November 2003 06:28 am, Rick Sivernell wrote:
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>   Does any one have a recommendation for a good cad program that will
> read in/out acad files. Since he paid over $400 for the lite version,
> he opposed to paying again.

Try VariCAD
www.varicad.com

I'm playing with it now and it seems pretty decent, but it is not free.  
It has a trial version.
HOWEVER, the thing only comes as rpms for SuSE, mandrake and redhat.  I 
tried an rpm query to find out what it needed, and loaded up all the 
stuff it wanted (specifically wanted glibc-2.4.4) and then the dumb 
thing went to look for a version number for glibc in an rpm database.  
But of course, I compiled glibc from source and the dumb thing instead 
wanted to look at an rpm database so it still would not run.
So, in the end, I had to load up SuSE 8.1 just to get the f*$&%^ thing 
to work.  So that was annoying, but it does work and is fairly 
straightforward.

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