MS Windows/PC Issues

Q: My Star-Hspice license will not work on my PC. Why?

A: Problems often occur on PC's with truncated lines in license files; repair the license or contact the Star-Hspice technical support team by submitting a question to:

hspice_nw@avanticorp.com

To ensure Avant! has a thorough understanding of your question, please provide all pertinent details.

Solution: 55

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Q: I am having trouble installing Star-Hspice on my Windows NT machine.

A: Windows NT environment variables (installdir, LM_LICENSE_FILE and PATH) need to be set in ControlPanel->System; these are not set by default.

Solution: 56

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Q: How can I run older Star-Hspice versions without having to source the "cshrc.meta" file of the older version?

A: See this solution in Licensing/Access Issues.

Solution: 57

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Q: Why do I get the message, " Bad date found in the running machine ," when starting Star-Hspice on Win NT?

A: To get a license to check out, make sure the dates on the Windows NT machine are consistent with the current time (i.e., no future creation or modification times). The files with bad dates must be changed.

However, Windows NT does not come with a utility that can easily change file dates. To change these dates requires a command such as the UNIX "touch" command which Windows NT does not have. There is a third party software package that does have this "touch" command. "UnixDos Toolkit 4.3d" has numerous UNIX commands for the Window NT environment. It can be downloaded from software sites. After installation of this utility, one can "touch" the files and change their dates to the current date. However "touch" does not work with folders. To update the folder's dates, just copy the folder's contents to a new folder (example: folder xxx to folder xxx1), delete the old folder, and rename the folder to the original name (back to xxx).

Star-Hspice works when the files and directories in the "WINNT" folder are changed to the current date. Other files, not in the "WINNT" folder, with bad (future) dates do not cause any problems. An example of this is the MS Office files and folders. They can have bad dates but they do not affect the ability of Star-Hspice to run.

Solution: 341

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Q: In Windows, the path to license.dat is correct, but still Star-Hspice cannot find it. What do I do?

A: If you use Windows Explorer, it will, by default, not show the extension of a file. So if, by mistake, your license file has an additional extension besides .dat, then you will see it in the Explorer view, but Star-Hspice cannot find it.

To remedy the problem, open a "DOS prompt" and go to the directory where you have your license file and type (without quotes) "dir". Find your license file, and see if it has an additional extension such as .txt or .flx. To fix it, type "rename license.dat.??? license.dat". This should rename the file to license.dat.

Solution: 439

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Q: How do I load network files into AvanWaves on a PC?

A: To be able to view network drives in AvanWaves, you need to know the path to the network resource. To access a file on server in your home directory, you would use the path:

\\Server\home\user

This has to be typed in the "open" dialog box in AvanWaves. AvanWaves will 'remember' this path throughout the current session.

Solution: 448

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Q: How do you run Star-Hspice from a command prompt in Windows?

A: Use the form:

hspice -i input.sp -o output.lis

This opens the Star-Hspice output window (shows the status of the .sw0 file) and runs the input file. When Star-Hspice is done, the window closes and the command prompt is updated.

Solution: 457

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Q: How do I get a copy of the Star-Hspice manuals (for Windows)?

A: See this solution in Documentation.

Solution: 460

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Q: If I downloaded Star-Hspice from Windows NT, will it work on all Windows operating systems?

A: Yes, Star-Hspice can be run on Windows 95/98 and NT 3.5 and 4.0.

Solution: 502

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Q: Are there any demo files included with the PC version of the software?

A: Yes, during installation you have the option to install demos.

Solution: 503

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