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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

F4EXB is a French call sign, so 051018 means October 18th, 2005.
This is consistent with your dates.

Jean-Paul
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On Apr 18, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Since I could not acces the files I asked on IRC, and I was told by
> jesse_m on that; two files showed up because they contain the string
> in them: pcbnew.cpp and graphpcb.cpp, both from 2005.
> The pcbnew.cpp just contains the line: wxString Main_Title("PCBNEW
> test F4EXB 051018-01");
> 
> The graphpcb.cpp jesse copied to a gist:
> https://gist.github.com/Jesse-Millwood/11058990, it shows up in there
> about 8 times --all in comments though.
> 
> So this is definitely what it refers to.
> 
> 2014-04-18 20:44 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> The reference could be to a radioamateur call F4EXB which is a guy
>> called Edouard Greiffiths, he posted something on the user group list
>> on yahoo,  relating to some files he names after his callsign. The
>> message matches up with the following six numbered that I guessed
>> could be a date code.
>> 
>> I do not have access to the files section, but maybe there is a file
>> related to this.
>> 
>> https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/kicad-users/conversations/topics/133
>> 
>> 2014-04-18 19:18 GMT+02:00 Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Does the class cleanup I talked about a while ago. Everything seems to work but
>>> further testing is welcome, especially for the autoplacer/router which
>>> I don't actually use.
>>> 
>>> If everything is OK I'd commit it in a few days.
>>> 
>>> Notes:
>>> - The idea is that via type and drill don't belong to the TRACK ancestor
>>>  (and, by extension, to the SEGZONE sister);
>>> - The kind of via (through, blind/buried, micro) is now called ViaType
>>>  (enum VIATYPE_T, instead of a plain int); the previous 'Shape' was
>>>  probably from some ancient relationship with DRAWSEGMENT
>>> - The TraceSegmentPcb was overloaded for taking DRAWSEGMENT; it removes
>>>  the ugly dummy trace object used for passing parameters to it. Using
>>>  m_Param for transporting the arc angle was, well, strange:P
>>> 
>>> I found a strange thing in graphpcb.cpp, probably a former special case
>>> for vertical/horizontal lines; grep for F4EXB 051018-01 in it (no idea
>>> of what it would mean...some kind of ticket reference?)
>>> 
>>> Good work to everyone
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Lorenzo Marcantonio
>>> Logos Srl
>>> 
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