Math & Science ⇒ package pst-circ

[kbfloyd]

I'm experimenting with this package for writing circuit analysis exams for engineering students. My environment is Cygwin on a Win7 machine.

I can produce (it seems) a dvi file, but the subsequent dvips step fails with "dvips: ! Couldn't find header file pst-circ.pro"

I downloaded the .pro file from here http://pstcirc.free.fr/download/download.htm
and put it in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/pstricks (because that's where the related .pro files seemed to be).

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Ken

Here's the file I'm compiling:

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-circ}
\begin{document}

\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(3,2)
  \pnode(0,1){A}
  \pnode(3,1){B}
  \resistor(A)(B){$R$}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document

[CrazyHorse]

I'm experimenting with this package for writing circuit analysis exams for engineering students. My environment is Cygwin on a Win7 machine.

I can produce (it seems) a dvi file, but the subsequent dvips step fails with "dvips: ! Couldn't find header file pst-circ.pro"

I downloaded the .pro file from here http://pstcirc.free.fr/download/download.htm
and put it in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/pstricks (because that's where the related .pro files seemed to be).

the file is part of any TeX-distribution, no need for loading
it by hand. However, at least you need the packages
pst-circ.pro
pst-circ.tex
pst-circ.sty
In the readme file you'll find where these packages have to
be saved. the latest package ist available from CTAN:
http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstrick ... /pst-circ/
What tex distribution do you have installed?

Herbert

[kbfloyd]

I'm just using whatever gets installed with Cygwin (I elect to install the complete distribution of Cygwin, and I updated the entire installation about 2 weeks ago.)

"tex -v" returns:
TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
kpathsea version 3.5.4

I do have the pst-circ.tex and .sty files. It's just the .pro file I didn't seem to have.

Thanks for your help. I will go to CTAN and see if getting the latest package will fix my problem.

I also found another package that my do what I want: CircuiTikZ

I'll let you know how it turns out!

Ken

[kbfloyd]

I figured it out. I had neglected to run texhash after getting the .pro file in the right place. (Yes, I'm embarrassed!)