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[ This is the first message (to geda-dev) of approximately 40 messages which have not been posted to geda-dev/geda-user for various reasons. These 40 messages represent real gEDA related posts out of tens of thousands of spam attempts to the mailing lists. Some of these are quite old (over 6 months old) and/or might have already been reposted. And as usual, I am not the original author, so keep that when responding. -Ales ] -- Cut here -- Delivery-Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 11:56:08 -0400 From: Holger Waechtler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Karel Kulhav=FD wrote: > Hello >=20 > I struck PADS2000 format on Simputer design download page: > http://simputer.org/simputer/downloads/hardware/ > Simputer is a 206MHz ARM PDA that is being commercially manufactures > (at least allegedly, and I have also seen some consumer reviews) and > is almost-free-technology. Great! >=20 > But what is the PADS2000 format? Is it something ASCII? As far I know both a binary and an ASCII variant are defined. The PADS=20 format can e.g. be read/written the Altium tool, Protel and PADS itself. > And is it standardized? well -- since the tools that read and write it are from the same vendor=20 I guess they share the same source code and thus define a standard=20 defined by the code. No idea whether a file format specification was=20 ever published. > (Definition: standard is something that is designed to be known and adh= ered to > by potentially everyone. Therefore standards for money are not standard= s in > this my personal definition because they are not meant for anyone, but = just for > the paying people.) >=20 > And if it's some standard, have someone of you already met it? Would it= be > difficult to make PCB capable of reading or even writing this? At lease the ASCII format is pretty well tagged, thus guessing the=20 format and the meanings of the tags should not be too hard. Holger
