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Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Stale rat's nest?

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Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB: Stale rat's nest?
From: DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:13:44 -0500
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> * Manually open the board from the Project Manager.  PCB will report that 
> there is no font information included in the board, and that it's reverting 
> to the default font.

This is normal, although I suppose we could just not bother with that
message.

> * You'll see a single 14-pin IC in the upper-left corner.  Zoom in
> on it.  Notice something missing?  There should be two rat lines on
> the board, connecting three pins together.  Ok, maybe they're just
> not being drawn?  Hit 'o' to optimize the netlist and PCB will
> complain that there is no netlist loaded.  

Older pcb's didn't support netlists *in* the pcb file itself.  Since
we do now, perhaps gsch2pcb could just put the netlist in the newly
created file?

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