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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

On 01/20/2015 01:37 PM, LordBlick wrote:
> In response to a message written on 20.01.2015, 20:02, from Bob
> Gustafson:
> > > Is on a kicad roadmap multi-board projecting ? If no, there's no much
> > > difference where one board settings are stored, regardlessly of how
> > > much
> > > work was done…
> >
> > The idea of a 'Standalone' board design app is puzzling to me. If
> > there is
> > anything in the project file that has project-wide scope, it seems to
> > me that
> > trying to use the pcbnew application without that information would be
> > problematic. Maybe I am missing the concept?
> Make an experiment - open standalone .kicad_pcb with no any other
> files in
> current dir, then close. What's there new appears ? ;)
> Supposedly pcbnew does not need this file ... The contradiction.
Experiment results:

[user1 empty]$ mkdir empty
[user1 empty]$ cd empty
[user1 empty]$ kicad_pcb
bash: kicad_pcb: command not found...
[user1 empty]$ .kicad_pcb
[user1 empty]$ ls
[user1 empty]$ ls -l
total 0
[user1 empty]$ ls -a
.   ..

I'm not sure what I should see..

Best regards

Bob G