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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

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*  

*PART*       ITEMS
J1      CON-SAM-FT5-RA-30@CON-SAM-FT5-RA-30
X1      MTG-340-600@MTG-340-600
C1      C-3216M-N/A@C-3216M
C67     C-1005M-103-25V-X7R@C-1005M
...

Schematic:
*PADS-LOGIC-V9.0* DESIGN EXPORT FILE FROM PADS LOGIC VVX.1.2
*SCH*        GENERAL PARAMETERS OF THE SCHEMATIC DESIGN"

CUR SHEET    12             Current Active Sheet
USERGRID     100    100     Design and Label/Text grid settings
...

Layout:
!PADS-POWERPCB-V10.0-BASIC! DESIGN DATABASE ASCII FILE 1.0
*PCB*        GENERAL PARAMETERS OF THE PCB DESIGN

UNITS        1              2=Inches 1=Metric 0=Mils
USERGRID     150000 150000  Space between USER grid points
MAXIMUMLAYER 8              Maximum routing layer 
...

Regards,

Clemens

On 2018-04-19 01:27, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> If no one can confirm that other EDA applications require a fixed file
> extension to work correctly, I would leave it as is.  If there is any
> requirement later, we can always tweak it as part of a bug fix release.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 04/18/2018 07:06 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> If no one else is familiar with this either then we can just go with
>> what we have now.
>>
>> But I thought I’d ping the dev group one more time in case someone does….
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>>
>>
>>> On 26 Mar 2018, at 01:04, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The PADS-PCB netlist evidently needs an extension of .asc to be read
>>> correctly[1].
>>>
>>> I implemented a reg-ex which takes the pen-ultimate file extension
>>> from the XSL file and applies it to the output file.  So the script
>>> for the above-mentioned netlist exporter is now:
>>>
>>> netlist_form_pads-pcb.asc.xsl
>>>
>>> Would any of the other XLS scripts benefit from this?  I don’t know
>>> enough about the different formats to know if they have well-known
>>> extensions.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff.
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1591779
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