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[LordBlick <lordblick@xxxxxxxxx>]

In response to a message written on 20.01.2015, 21:15, from Bob Gustafson:
> > > 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..
$ mkdir empty
$ cd empty
$ cp ~/tmp/test.kicad_pcb .
$ ls
test.kicad_pcb
$ pcbnew test.kicad_pcb
sh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  pcbnew test.kicad_pcb
$ ls
test.kicad_pcb  test.pro

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Best Regards,
LordBlick