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about the Protel Users FAQ

the independent Protel FAQ covers Frequently Asked Questions (with answers) about the Protel schematic, layout, and simulation software; and related general circuit design tips.

Lots of stuff missing. Please help us fill it in.

With the old versions of the FAQ, the only way for you to change it was:

Send improvements to the FAQ maintainer, currently David Cary <d.cary+protel at ieee.org>

However, now you can immediately add comments to the bottom of any page of this FAQ. In fact, if you sign up for a (free) massmind password, you can create entirely new pages of your own. Isn't technology wonderful ?

"the" Protel Users mailing list

There is a Protel Users mailing list. Smart Protel users subscribe to both of the following lists, since traffic flips between them when one is (temporarily) offline.

protel-users mailing list http://techservinc.com/protelusers/
protel-users mailing list (backup) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protel-users/ /* was http://www.egroups.com/group/protel-users */

These mailing lists also have associated:

mailing list status page http://techservinc.com/protelusers/getlistopt.html
Mailing list archive (yahoo half) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protel-users-PEDA-Archive/messages
Mailing list archive (techservinc half) http://www.mail-archive.com/proteledaforum@techservinc.com
Older mailing list archives for the Protel Users mailing list: http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/protelarchive/threads.html | http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/protelarchive/maillist.html
/* Some older messages are archived in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protel-users/files/protelmbx%28update12Aug2000%29.zip . -- is this still online ? */
/* Abd ul-Rahman Lomax has put another archive of the Protel mailing list online. Go to http://www.idrive.com/ and visit abdlomax. In the shared folder, the file is protelmbx.zip. -- is this still online ? */

Protel-specific news and mailing lists

see also mailing lists for general circuit design

Altium Designer, DXP, Protel 2004 & 99SE User Forums http://proteluser.com/ has a specific section for User Submitted Libraries (for part footprints and part symbol drawings for schematics ).
The "Eng-Tips" forums http://Eng-Tips.com/ includes a "Altium: Protel Forum" http://eng-tips.com/gthreadminder.cfm/lev2/22/lev3/70/pid/999 .
protel-users-ads mailing list for free Protel-related advertising.
protel-users-misc mailing list for general discussions (i.e., stuff that's off-topic on protel-users ).
protel-users-resale mailing list for information and listings re Protel resales.
protel-users-association mailing list for Association discussion and decision-making.
(Where did the protel forums go ?) /* was http://www.protel.com/community/forums.htm */

[FIXME: Does each page of the FAQ (they should all be listed at protel.htm ) have a "up" link to protel.htm and "prev" <-- --> "next" links? ]

The Protel Users FAQ was first posted by David Cary on 2000-04-03.

Originally posted at http://www.egroups.com/files/protel-users/protelfaq.html */

????: moved to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protel-users/files/protelfaq.html .

2003: moved to http://massmind.org/techref/app/protel.htm

2004-05: currently located at http://massmind.org/techref/app/protel.htm -- David Cary

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