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Subject: Re: [geda-help] is there a bug in pcb?
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Am Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:04:07 -0500
schrieb DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>:

> Trailing lower case letters are special cased, either end in an upper
> case letter or add a digit.
> 
> Historically, lower case letter suffixes were used for selecting a
> gate in a chip, like a quad NAND gate being U5a, U5b, etc.  and pcb
> ignores those suffixes when searching for parts.

Thanks