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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 ...
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