Hi! I was digging quite a lot in Mentor PADS's ASCII stuff in the past. Some lately introduced "features" are still undocumented but not too difficult to guess. If somebody needs some help in testing/debugging in that area, please let me know.
Regards, Clemens On 2018-04-19 10:54, Marco Ciampa wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:34:24AM +0200, Clemens Koller wrote: >> I strongly belief that Mentor PADS 9.x.y...VX.x.y does _not_ rely on the >> file extension to work correctly. >> However it makes loading of the file more simple as file dialogs ask for >> ".asc" or ".txt". >> >> The header / first lines look important - i.e.: >> >> Netlist: >> !PADS-POWERPCB-V9.0-METRIC! NETLIST FILE FROM PADS LOGIC VVX.1.2 >> *REMARK* P1234-XYZ-2.3.4.sch -- Fri May 06 11:56:49 2017 >> *REMARK* > > Looks a job for BSD's file/magic/libmagic tools to me ... > > -- > > > Marco Ciampa > > I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. > > ------------------------ > > GNU/Linux User #78271 > FSFE fellow #364 > > ------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
