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Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:45:41 -0700
From: Andrew Poelstra <asp11 AT sfu DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Working with a 0.1mm grid
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:30:43PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > No, it's the "only use cmils for backward compatibility" code.
> 
> Older PCBs don't understand units on the Grid[] data ?

They understand:
  no units means cmils
  "mm" suffix means mm
  "mil" suffix means mil

Some other suffixes are in the code, but IIRC, the scale factors
are backward so they don't work.

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