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[Mr Christopher Rose <mrchrisrose AT yahoo.com>]

Sindi,

I think you'd better check your system's clock settings. All the e-mails I get from you are dated for December 2005.

sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>  Our DOS CAD program only does VGA, and the two others I tried crash.  (One 
> was tested by the author only in a Windows DOS box, where it works. !!!).
>
> I found qcad, about 2MB binary with lots of libraries and fonts, but it 
> 'needs QT', or apparently libqt.so.3 and libc6.  SW71 has qt 1.45, SW81 qt 
> 3.0.  Is it enough just to copy over that one library and symlink it, 
> without installing 15MB or so of the whole package, or KDE itself?
>
> This program creates DXF (vector) files, which I would need to convert to 
> something bitmapped to print (or maybe just do a screen capture). 
> vec2web can convert DXF to GIF JPEG PNG PPM PS BMP etc, but it
>  requires QT 
> developer's version to compile.  QCAD used it to create a parts library.
>
> I looked at the Redhat 7.2 binary of FreeDraft engineering 2D CAD program, 
> the author of which recommends QCAD instead. 700K binary with two pages of 
> dependencies that I think are GTK (libGL, GLU, TKernel.....) also things 
> from xbin (libXi, libXm), libV, libVgl (not found), libglut (mesa.tgz), 
> libdime (not found).
>
> There are several CAD programs based on Python, including PythonCAD (1.2MB 
> RPM binary).  Would these be smaller than the GTK or QT varieties?  We 
> want mainly straight lines and minimal text.  tkcadvas (Python) is 46K 
> code.
>
> Sketch/Skencil is apparently more of a painting program.
>
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