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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I found this at zeleps.com, 97K DOS file, PRESZ134.ZIP, and put it at
www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan/basiclinux.htm along with some other things I 
have collected (compiled, or converted from deb packages).  Have not tried 
it.

Regarding CAD programs, I found a couple of large free ones (10MB or so):
Qcad - free source code, free demos for RH or SuSE 9 or Windows, small 
charge for binaries that work more than 10 days.  2D CAD
FREEdraft - GPL

These are overkill for our purpose, drawing house plans.  We are currently 
using a nice shareware DOS program Microcad 4.15, $40 got us the latest 
version and the older one was at simtel.  It is about 40K.  

I may have found something similar free for linux but larger:  
Sketch-0.6.2-1 for RH 6.0 or SuSe or Debian of the same age (abandoned 
project) which should work with BL2 if you add python 1.5.1.  About 1.5M 
download of two files, and add python.  

Also ran across tgif for X11 2D drawing program under 1M source code.
Maybe Debian has it?  Does slackware come with a drawing program that is 
not really a painting program?  


> 
> > You say to use 'partition resizer' to resize linux partitions.  We
> > determined that partition magic won't resize linux partitions, and
> > partition manager says they are an unknown file type and never to try to
> > resize before first defragmenting.  What/where is 'partition resizer'?
> 
> Partition resizer can be downloaded from zeleps.com it is a very tight dos
> based partition utility program that can work on all formats of
> filesystems. Make sure you get the 1.3.4 version though, the earlier
> versions couldn't handle non FAT filesystems (NTFS, ext2, etc). If you
> can't get the zeleps page to load (I can't load it on my work computer,
> but home is fine), then just do a google search for "partition resizer"
> (with or without quotes, almost same results for sites that matter).
> Version 1.3.4 supposedly can modify the partition tables of hard drives of
> up to 2TB in size. The only thing it can't do as far as partition work
> goes is creating and deleting partitions. That you have to do using a
> partition creation/deletion tool (fdisk, etc).
> 
> > Jim (my patient fellow-conspirator in trying to build 6 linux computers)
> > thanks you for all the information and loves to try out new programs like
> > this and hopes that I will have gotten hold of it by the time he finishes
> > his C++ programming final this afternoon and attempts to fix a dying
> > monitor and some dead speakers which we gave to someone that we fixed up
> > with a Win98 computer.  Her previous model (Win95) spent overnight trying
> > to defragment and kept starting over (AIM, Weatherbug, virus checker....)
> > until we discovered it would run better in SAFE MODE (without all those
> > drivers loaded).  What is loading besides drivers which normally slows
> > down defrag when you don't do it during startup?
> 
> Windows loads a ton of stuff during system startup aside from whats in the
> Startup program group on start menu. Look into the registry, use the same
> as I mentioned for starting defrag first, just look a few branches up at
> Run and RunServices. Everything listed in there is usually started up
> prior to Start Menu (and RunServices is started prior to logon screen
> appears IIRC).
> 
> > Can anyone recommend a good small CAD program for linux which lets you
> > zoom in to view details?  With a way to print the output.
> 
> I don't know any off the top of my head, but you can try doing a search on
> Freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net to see if anything is available. Both
> locations are open source project management sites.
> 
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