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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:50:47 +0200
From: "Lev (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] shortest way towards parsing .pcb files outside pcb
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:31:24 -0800
"Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> Reasonable.  I'd make human-readable the default, to keep simple
> things as simple as possible.  But I guess in principle there's no
> reason not to have both.

Back in the sweet 90's, there was a program called tango pcb. It had a file
format of both binary and ASCII representations.

I'm happy with the dual file format. The essence is the data structure
anyways.

@Britton: Sorry, I didn't see this thread, and I asked a question which was
answered here.

Lev

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