I think that pcb should look for a part with the refdes U1a first before dropping the a to match U1.
it should also spit out a little blurb about what it did. that way when someone does name a part Tm and wants it to be called Tm, pcb sees that part Tm exists and that no part T exists. we could also issue a warning if parts T and Tm exist; I don't believe that it's required though. just a thought, this has bitten a few people. Steve On Jan 20, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:40:28 +0000, Peter Clifton wrote: > >> PCB drops any lower case suffixes on refdes. That might be documented >> somewhere, but I'm not sure where > > It should be considered a bug to be fixed. I had pcb crash on me > because > of this. This is a major newbie trap. Either gsch2pcb should > complain and > issue a big, fat warning, or pcb should handle all kinds of names > decently. > > ---<(kaimartin>)--- > -- > Kai-Martin Knaak tel: > +49-511-762-2895 > Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: > +49-511-762-2211 > Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni- > hannover.de > GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak > +kmk&op=get > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user