On Saturday 09 January 2016 14:16:16 Johann Klammer wrote: > On 01/09/2016 06:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have drawn a simple 6 part schematic, in gschem, for something I > > need several copies of as part of the control mechanism of a cnc > > machine tool. > > > > Now I would like to translate that to a pcb I can make. > > Try: > info pcb "Schematic Frontends" "gEDA" > > (in a terminal and with pcb-common installed) > > `?' gives the keypresses for navigating the info manual... > They have all been tried, same results as the mouse clicks, nothing.
> > However, its been an exercise best described as the 10,000 monkeys > > with typewriters miraculously re-creating Shakespears works. > > > > The reason? In the help pulldown, the top 3 items that should give > > one access to the documentation for the geda suite of programs, do > > ANAICT nothing, not even a disk access spike is shown by gkrellm. > > sounds like you are missing a -doc package > Its installed. But iceweasel had self-destructed, unable to open a file on a local file system EXCEPT for the localhost:6309/gene, which is the local link to the web page in my sig, its this machine. And that works instantly, as does the index.html from awffull. But very littler else works locally. > > The complete suite of programs is installed. Is there a .conf file > > someplace besides /etc/gEDA/system-gschemrc to set its choice of > > browsers to use to display this stuff? iceweasel is the default, > > chromium is available, as is konqerer. Resetting the default > > browser to each of them in turn has no effect. > > > > I need some clues as to how to even trace this to see where the > > failure is. FWIW, while looking at /etc/gEDA/gschemrc, I did fix it > > so the print command worked by adding the cups defined name > > as "lp -dNetwork_printer". The default "lpr" apparently sends the > > job to /dev/null, or possibly /dev/oblivion? It never gets anywhere > > near a cups log. > > > > The same /usr/share/gEDA directory tree also contains at least 1000 > > .sym files, which are what gschem uses to draw the part symbol on > > the screen, and all that works, but no handy documentation can be > > displayed on command. > > > > Clues? I seem to have used up mine. > > > > Thanks all. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
