On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:45:00PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote: > Hamish - > > > > BTW, the debian description (at least for the previous release) is a tad > > > out of date: > > > > > > Description: Printed Circuit Board Design Program > > > Pcb is a handy tool for the X Window System build to design > > > printed circuit boards. All coordinate units are 1/1000 inch. > > > For details see the manual. > > > > > > Is that one of the things you changed? > > > > No. Can you provide a better description? > > Here's my three-minute attempt: > > Description: Printed Circuit Board Design Program > Pcb is a handy tool to design printed circuit boards. All coordinate > units are 1/100000 inch. It has a large library of part footprints, > can handle multi-layer boards, and can check the layout for consistency > with design rules and against netlists provided by (separate) schematic > entry software. For details see the manual. > I'd drop the "units are 1/100000 inch". That seems more like a pcb manual question not the answer to "what is pcb".
-Dan --
