Re: gEDA-user: pcb save as older version?

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 14:52 -0500, Mark Rages wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to mix and match pcb builds to evade some polygon bugs.
> 
> But I modified a file in git pcb and now I want to load it in the
> older pcb supplied by Ubuntu.
> 
> I get this warning:
> "ERROR:  The file you are attempting to load is in a format
> which is too new for this version of pcb.  To load this file
> you need a version of pcb which is >= 20100606.  If you are
> using a version built from cvs sources, the source date
> must be >= 20100606.  This copy of pcb can only read files
> up to file version 20070407."
> 
> Is there a way to save the file as an older version?

No, but if you don't use any polygon holes in the file, just hand-edit
the file version header back to 20070407.

> Regards,
> Mark
> markrages@gmail

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