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.

Joe T

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