>>> Grant wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 02:38:02 -0800, Robert Baer<robertb...@localnet.com>   wrote:

>>>>>     I go to http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/ ans download
>>>>> LTspiceIV.exe, then install it.
>>>>>     Impossible to update; get error message that 'Could not read web
>>>>> file: "http://LTspice.linear-tech.com/fieldsync/release.log.gz".
>>>>>     That file, if downloaded and applied, crashes with the error "Fatal
>>>>> Error: Trouble converting to curly brace notation:
>>>>>    Mismatched single quotes in" [[binary after ASCII part]].

>>>>>     So, now what??

>>>> Uninstall LTSpice and start over.  To apply update start LTSpice with
>>>> right-click ->   Run as administrator, then Tools ->   Sync Release.

>>>> It works on win7.

>>>> Grant.
>>>    Uninstall and re-install dew gnott hellp.

>>>    Nope; get menu Open / scan with Avast! / Send to / Cut / Copy /
>>> create shortcut / delete / rename / Properties .

>>>    Not using Win 7; using Win2K.

>> Why you stay back in dark ages of win2k?

>>>    Last time i had this problem i found the URL was incorrect; it was
>>> ../fieldsync2/.. where at that time the ../fieldsync/.. URL was 404.
>>>    They must have fixed that problem because the URL does have the .GZ
>>> file (and the ../fieldsync2/.. is 404).

>> I really think you ought to catch up to decent windows OS :)

>> Grant.
>   The OS has nothing to do with the bad URLs or bad .GZ files.

>   Win7 release has removed many useful features that Win2K (or even
>WinXP which was more stunted than Win2K) had.
>   You CANNOT search for files with a given text.
>   You WILL NOT find all files with a given search parameter; you may be
>lucky to find one or two and the chances of finding the file that you
>damn well know exists, is virtually ZERO.
>   You have to toss all older programs and _buy_ new versions that are
>so crappy and/or different that you would be better off learning the
>language of the sand lizards of Alpha Centauri.

>   You have absolutely ZERO control as to which processes will run in
>the background and AFAIK cannot even kill a process if something goes
>tits up.
>   Undesirable processes (ie should be disabled): Messenger, Alerter,
>Clipbook, Distributed Link Tracking Client, Distributed Transaction
>Coordinator, Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing, Routing and Remote
>Access, Smart Card, Smart Card Helper, Telnet, and if do not have UPS or
>UPS has no computer link), disable Uninterruptible Power Supply.
>   Perhaps disable Wireless Configuration,if hardwired Ethernet.