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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Converting footprints from PADS to PCB
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falcon AT ivan DOT Harhan DOT ORG:
...
> I wonder, would you or any other PADS user happen to know if they ever
> released any documentation for this ASCII format, or is a tight
> NDA-only deal?  It will probably take me quite a while to grok this
> format, but if there happens to be some documentation available, it
> might help a good bit..
...

Searching for pads file format I get this:

 http://www.eurointech.ru/products/Altium/Protel99SE_PCB_ASCII_File_Format.pdf

don't know if it's relevent...

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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