Re: gEDA-user: What is wrong

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:30 +0300, ineiev@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello, Patrick;
> 
> On 1/20/09, Patrick Dupre <pd520@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When I try to make the rate net, I get:
> > Can't find T pin 1 called for in netlist
> 
> There is a string in rats.c, in function ParseConnection(),
> for (i = j; i > 0 && ElementName[i - 1] >= 'a'; i--);
> 
> I think this may mean something like slotting
> ("Tm-1" in the netlist is interpreted as "element T, slot m, pin 1"),
> though I am not sure.
> 
> When Tm is renamed to Tm1, it works as expected.

Yep, you got it in one.. although strictly speaking, "m" is just
dropped. PCB doesn't know or care about slots.

PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be documented
somewhere, but I'm not sure where ;)

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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