From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b40cbf62bebae7e1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.228.227 with SMTP id sl3mr14236326pbc.5.1341605972700; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Path: l9ni11004pbj.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ann: TeXCAD 4.3 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8dfefd8c-ddb3-485c-8828-ca57f9e4ba09@googlegroups.com> References: <7a4967fb-0964-4616-8e7a-249f1be40d87@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.76.243.62 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1341605972 14274 127.0.0.1 (6 Jul 2012 20:19:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:19:32 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.76.243.62; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-06T13:17:29-07:00 List-Id: Ada novice: > Nice Software. Thanks! > However I stumbled across this link via http://texcad.sf.net: > > http://www.gelbes-rechenbuch.de/Texcad32/index_e.html > > It says: Version 4.4.2 Aug 01, 2004 > Freeware Drawing Program for LaTeX and Windows > > So if I use Windows should I go for the older version TexCad32 version 4.4.3 of Aug. 2004 rather than the new TexCad but of version 4.3? Lol - yeah, you just need a time machine ;-). Seriously, these are two different programs, with only a common ancestor (TeXCAD for DOS), hence the same name and a similar purpose. I admit it is confusing, so I put a schema below to explain the various texcad's hanging around :-) . > Both seem to work on Windows. Yep. Try both to have an idea... Have fun! 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