Re: [PEDA] Importing OrCAD Netlists into a Protel 99SE layout..

2003-09-11 Thread Matt . VanDeWerken
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

Re: [PEDA] Importing OrCAD Netlists into a Protel 99SE layout..

2003-09-11 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
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