On Dec 2, 2007 9:08 PM, Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, > It looks like the RS274x manual has sloppy code in it. The G04 code > in line 1 is supposed to end with a "*" at the end of the line to signal > it is finished (see section on G-codes in the manual). gerbv keeps > reading until it finds a *, which made it advance past the FS statement > in the next line. If you add a final "*" to line 1, it should work. > Maybe we'll look into adding a fix for this problem and let a > carriage return also work to finish out a G code, just to make sure we > handle this type of malformed code. Thanks for pointing this problem > out. > > Cheers, > Julian > > You may want to check before allowing a CR/LF to end a command. I recall seeing gerber files many years ago that used fixed length records (80 char or 255 char lines). Hitting a CR/LF before a command was finished wold happen all the time - and be legal syntax.
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