IMNSHO, protel and other cad packages went a long way backwards when they
moved away from text formats. Sure, binary might be smaller, and harder to
reverse-engineer, but there's nothing like being able to run a design
through a shell script and being able to change numerous values. Scripting
At 08:30 PM 9/11/2003, you wrote:
IMNSHO, protel and other cad packages went a long way backwards when they
moved away from text formats.
One of the nice features of Protel is that the PCB ASCII file format is
self-documenting. You don't need a manual to read it, though sometimes you
might need