Evidently you have had the same problems with Eagle as me - many of the
    commands are counter-intuitive, and compared to some older software (DOS,
    not windoze), it's dreadful!  The only thing in its' favour is price!

Also in it's favor is that it is IMPROVING.  When I first tried Eagle, there
was version 3.5x or so, and I found the learning curve so steep that I wrote
it off as unusable (that was back when the tutorial was based on the
command-line versions for most commands.)  More recently, when I tried 4.x,
it was MUCH BETTER.  Most things are now somewhat intuitive and available
via a GUI, and the library search capability is quite nice.  There remain
three annoyances:

1) "wire" vs "net" for connecting signals.  Hmm.  Maybe I should download
   the German language version and see if I remember enough German to tell
   whether this is wholely a language/translation issue.  You can get used
   to this one pretty quickly, though.
2) The whole "copy" thing.  It's not that it's BAD, really, it's just quite
   different than ... every window system ever written.  Jarringly so.
   (don't forget all those gates that you can't "duplicate" but CAN
   group/cut/paste... to copy...)
3) Library management.  There are some bandaids for this, but it's still
   really annoying...  This is supposed to be addressed in 5.x due out
   sometime next year.

BillW

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