Re: gEDA-user: gsch2pcb options with xsch2pcb

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 12:43 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:24:52 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> 
> > No one wrote this feature yet, nor a man page. Since xgsch2pcb is
> > targeted towards being a GUI tool for those uncomfortable with the
> > command line, it hasn't been a great priority.
> > 
> > This said, I use xgsch2pcb for my work, and I'm quite happy with a
> > command line.
> 
> By the way: The tutorial chooses to call the file of options for gsch2pcb 
> a "project file" and suggests *.proj as suffix. As far as I can see, this 
> file is only used by the netlister. If this is true, it may be better to 
> choose a more specific suffix like *.g2p . Would anyone object, if I 
> change the wiki version of the tutorial accordingly?

I deliberately used ".gsch2pcb" in xgsch2pcb.. since it would be nice if
"*.proj" were "reserved" for the project manager.

g2p should work too, but are there any interesting systems now which
require 3-letter file extensions?

The file is used by gsch2pcb, _not_ the netlister directly.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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Cambridge
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