Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

From	Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs
Date	2016-06-06 20:00 +0200
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On Monday 06 June 2016 18:49:50 David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 13:12:33 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 06 June 2016 11:54:12 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> > > On Seg, 06 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > So the bottom line is that wheezy doesn't have a decent CAD program,
> > > > and never will.
> > >
> > > I suppose that when it was released, little over three years ago, it
> > > had a then decent CAD program.
> >
> > Thats not what I said or intended to say, and no it didn't have one then
> > either.
> >
> > That qcad fork, with no docs is the best its ever offered, and its just
> > qcad renamed & not even close to the last 1.0.7 release.  Freecad has
> > run on every install I've tried it on over the last 4 or 5 years, but
> > not on debian wheezy.  It too has a vertical learning curve, decent
> > docs, but even though Dan Heeks is or was on the team, his heekscnc
> > convertor got left behind.  And none of its plethora of other export
> > data formats are readily converted the RS-274-D, the N.I.S.T. std code
> > format for this.  Linuxcnc grew from that code base, but has now been
> > extended many many times  So I haven't propped a ladder against freecad
> > and really really tried to learn it.  But first I'd have to pull the
> > sources and see if I can build it to run on wheezy.
>
> It appears to be in wheezy-backports.
>
> Cheers,
> David.

I can't find it there.  I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it were 
there.

Lisi

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libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-03 12:10 +0200
  Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-06-03 12:50 +0200
    Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-03 13:30 +0200
  Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-06-03 13:10 +0200
    Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-03 13:40 +0200
      Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-06-03 17:00 +0200
        Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-03 18:30 +0200
  Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-06-05 11:20 +0200
    Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-05 11:50 +0200
      Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-06-05 12:00 +0200
        Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-05 16:00 +0200
          Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 18:00 +0200
            Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-05 20:20 +0200
            Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-05 21:40 +0200
          Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-06-05 19:00 +0200
            Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-05 21:50 +0200
          Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-06-06 15:20 +0200
            Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-06 16:20 +0200
              Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2016-06-06 18:00 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-06 19:20 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-06 20:00 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 20:00 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-06 20:20 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 20:50 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-06-06 21:10 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 21:20 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-06 23:00 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-06-07 10:20 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-07 16:00 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-06-07 17:20 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-07 20:00 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-06-08 08:50 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-08 15:50 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-06-09 11:40 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-09 18:10 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-06-09 22:40 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 00:10 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 00:10 +0200
                Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-10 01:40 +0200
    Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-06-05 19:20 +0200
      Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-06-05 19:30 +0200
        Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-06-05 19:40 +0200
        Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-05 22:10 +0200
          Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-06-06 10:00 +0200
      Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-06-05 22:00 +0200
        Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-06-05 22:30 +0200

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