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 20:50 +0200
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On Monday 06 June 2016 19:16:41 David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 06 Jun 2016 at 18:56:07 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > I can't find it there.  I looked with a view to pointing Gene to it if it
> > were there.
>
> Perhaps we disagree on the referent of "it"!
>
> -rw-r--r-- 18824580 Jun  6 13:11
> /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb
> eb83c48f5fdd6ec7c466ac1aec516741 
> /tmp/freecad_0.14.3702+dfsg-3~bpo70+1_i386.deb (md5)
>
> Cheers,
> David.

Indeed!  Quotation from the subject line: Re: ****libreCAD****, can't find 
help docs (my stars).

Lisi

Thread

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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