This is a script that will link together a few
tools in linux to do circuit simulation. The
tools are GNU Octave, and the spice-2g6 circuit
simulator. Octave is freely available and easy
to find. Spice was distributed with RedHat-5.2.
You can get spice from RedHat or any mirror site
that has old distributions. If you have problems 
getting spice to install, try rpm --nodeps spicexxx.rpm
this worked for me on a debian box and spice is running
fine. You will also need to install the Term::ReadKey
and Term::ANSIColor modules from CPAN. Other than these
you "should" have no problems. The install script will
just copy bbsim.pl to /usr/bin and copy the man page to
/usr/share/man/man1. The spice manual that is included
is from Spice 2g6, I did some editing to it so that
it is a little more readable. I have also included a couple
of example decks to run. These are very simple decks.
This script is in its infancy so there is bound to be 
a few bugs. I have used
it for the purposes that I will be using it for and it 
is working well. I hope it works well for you. Let 
me know.  enjoy, 
billy
bbryant@cubsmvp.com
