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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:56:49 -0700
From: Andrew Poelstra <asp11 AT sfu DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] unit suffixes
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:54:07AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > Recent PCBs saves coordinates with unit suffixes.
> 
> Well, *yesterday*'s PCB at least ;-)
> 
> > Can I use them in actions as well?
> 
> That depends on the actions.  I don't think anyone has audited all the
> actions to make sure they all call the same units-parsing function.
> They should, and should be fixed if they don't.

This should be fine. I did something of an audit as part of my initial
work. Any unit-parsing code I didn't touch would be very broken by the
nanometers conversion.

So, either you can use unit suffixes, or the action doesn't work anyway.
;)

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Andrew Poelstra
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