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IMHO, you should just write a translator. It can't be too hard to
write something in Perl or Python. Since the Viewdraw format is
ASCII, and the formats are similar, you may just need to write a
line-by-line translator, which would be relatively easy. The program
would just take a Viewdraw file as input and write a gEDA file as
output (or vice-versa). Don't bother
trying to graft the Viewdraw file format directly into gEDA. That
would be difficult and unnecessary since a translator would acheive
your goal just as easily.
Finally, if you do write a translator, would you be willing to GPL it
and share it with the gEDA Project?
Interesting suggestion. If I manage to write the conversion script I'd be happy to GPL it. :-)
Thanks a lot for the suggestion!
Jung