Re: Cad Programs - some notes

Actually his title:name is

Brigadier General: Protection Fault and he's the poster
child for PC frustration. ;)

-Lee




--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, "Doug Harrison" <prototype@c...>
wrote:

> >
> > A couple of people have mentioned Easycad.
> > This was updated about a year ago to Easycad 32 and has a lot more
> > functions added. It's big brother is Fastcad 32 which is a very

powerful

> > and fast program and reasonably easy to learn.
> <SNIPPITY-SNIP>
> > Some of these programs have bugs / faults that have remained

unanswered

> for
> > months. Spend your money wisely.
> <MORE SNIP>
>
> I have the 16 bit version of Easycad. Not very powerful but that's

why I

> like it - not a lot of unused (for most of us) commands to get lost

in. It

> does have a bug that shows up under W95/98 but works perfectly in

W3.1.

> Running under W95/98 you will get the message "GENERAL PROTECTION

FAULT AT

> (some address)" if you don't save your work often enough. This was

never

> fixed in the four years I've used the windows version.
>
> By the way, who is GENERAL PROTECTION, and why is he always getting

blamed?

> Did he fix the problem in the 32 bit version?
>
> Doug