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Weird.

After rebooting my system, it started working again correctly AFAICT.
At least as PCB import. Didn't have the time to check manual methods yet.

Forget that I asked...




On 26. 05. 20 08:47, Roland Lutz wrote:
> Hi Branko,
> 
> On Tue, 26 May 2020, Branko (brankob AT s5tehnika DOT net) [via 
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> Recently I noticed trhat I can't for the life of me generate correct 
>> netlist from schematics either manually or as schematic import from PCB.
> 
> since gEDA/gaf version 1.10.0, a GUI message dialog is shown when 
> importing from PCB fails.  Do you see a message dialog, and if so, what 
> errors does it report?
> 
>> "gnetlist -v -g PCB  -o TEST4.pcb TEST4.sch" gives me output with this 
>> content ( minus starred demacartion lines):
>>
>> /*************/
>> unnamed_net2<-->R2-1 R1-1.
>> unnamed_net1<-->R2-2 R1-2.****
>> /*************/
>>
>>
>> Just those two lines. No some header and other fields, that one would 
>> expect in pcb file...
> 
> As far as I can tell, that's the correct output for the `PCB' backend. 
> This backend doesn't output a PCB file but a netlist in a format used to 
> import it to PCB.
> 
> As a side note, PCB's import functionality doesn't use the `PCB' backend 
> but PCB's own `pcbfwd' backend which produces a list of PCB commands to 
> execute.
> 
> Roland
> 

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