gEDA-user: Non-numeric refdes allowed in PCB?

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

Hi guys,

Well, I just realized that PCB doesn't accept refdeses like "Rpower"
or "Cfeedback".  It only wants R3 and C17.  Questions:

*  Is this true, or am I doing something wrong?

*  How easy would it be to fix this?  Are component refdeses stored as
char *, or are they somehow turned into numerics?

If it's easy to fix, I may try my hand at it.  But first I though I'd
ask. . . .

Stuart