Current company excepted of course....

The people posting this NG as it turns out have a pretty
good nose for whats up in river city re CAD systems, its
glorious vendors, and genius's behind the scenes... that includes in
various aspects both Cliff (a tech wiz, and broad spectrum smart guy
imo)
and JB who knows crap when he sees it.


My analysis of the broader industry:

i will not make specific comment here just yet... is that most of
this crap is put together by a bunch
of clones waiting for 5 o'clock so they can get blasted
or waddle home to mama and go comatose on the couch.

Down deep they don't give a rats ass... beyond looking good personally
for
the day at least....

if they did give a rats ass, most management would fire them.


..the motive apparently is to look good, hide errors,
and being able to point to some other situation when the shit hits the
fan...hoping to keep ones
job for another few months at least.... the best dodger wins.





This seems to be true with many major corporations... any initiative
beyond that
gets cut off at the knees because it exposes all the dodgy
activity....God help the
VARS.

....so you get software that doesnt quite
make sense.. dialog boxes labled as 'xc$$cv4ty.pip ' then
reffered to
as 'the pointer box' or whatever in tutorials... .when in reality the
box is for selecting
line widths...that sort of thing, a made up example. .. go figure.



These are not products put out by a single dedicacted person intent on
producing a sensible product.... these are elephants designed by
committees, led by people who have never been in the trenches...wating
for
retirement or their next step up the corporate ladder.

.... and then they lie.

... 60% of humanity, these included by statistics have drug/ alcohol
or serious
jock itch problems.... average IQ 100... except for management...paper
pushers calling the shots on engineering software...

for advice these seek council at
the lowest pay rate possible. In that context i can sure
understand JB's tendency
toward the vernacular however misdirected it might have been in the
past..


I dont think this larger picture is going to change much... the
problem seems to be
pervasive... probably the root insight by those posting the NG...
its all mostly
predictable..

not rocket science.




Phil scott

 

And he loves it !!
The more buzzwords in the ad the better.

 

Bad install or $PATH or environment variables or file
overwritten or disk corruption similar. Possibly wrong
language? You can get odd looking stuff when the
language is not supported by your installed fonts & etc.
IF other users don't have this issue it's something like
that. If they do (all of them) then probably the vendor
shipped the wrong file(set) with your distribution or
something went wrong with the install script.
Or you may be missing a needed file .. ?
Search for files of type ".pip" (or whatever).

http://www.filext.com/
http://filext.com/file-extension/pip

Looks like a .pip file might be a compressed graphics file
OR a MS Office Personalized Menu and Toolbar file.
Do you have MS Office? It may be required too?

You cannot depend on the "xc$$cv4ty" bit to actually be
the needed file name I think.

 

In case others knew more. There are some MS & other experts in AUK too
IIRC.
Such a problem is not an uncommon one I gather.

I sort of failed to note your objections to years & years worth
of xposted winger garbage & lies to AMC.

Do you have something constructive to add on the problem
mentioned?