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On 05/02/2013 05:56 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>> I can exit PCB, restart it on that file, and it's gone again.  Turn on
>> the soldermask layer, turn it off again, and there's my layout.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here?
> 
> This smells like the long standing ugly bug that was exposed by hyphens in 
> footprint file names. IIRC, gedalib would interpret these names as M4 
> code. This code path would fail silently but yield invalid PCB syntax. 
> Depending on the exact circumstances, PCB would sometimes choke on the 
> resulting file. Sometimes, it would work seemingly fine but fail later.

  Uh-oh.  I have a great many footprints with hyphens in the filename.

> What version of geda and pcb do you use?

  I'm using gEDA v1.8.0, and PCB v20110918.  I think I'd better build a later
version of PCB from git.

  Thank you for this information!

              -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA