Well, see, I know that it is Protel because:

a. I bought the software from the original Australian
company, and

b. When it opens, it says:

Protel-PCB Layout System V3.03
Protel Systems Pty Ltd (c) 1986,1987
Distributed by HST Technology Pty Ltd

I opened up three files with my handy-dandy text
editor and these are the first few lines:

PCB #1 (each file chosen at random, by the way)

616
20 3055 278 4425 1 137 0
20 3055 276 4325 2 137 0
20 3055 276 4225 3 137 0

PCB #2

1544
20 4030 514 3750 3 137 0
20 4210 514 3750 1 137 0
20 4120 514 3750 2 137 0

PCB #3

809
20 5865 514 4535 3 137 0
20 6015 514 4535 2 137 0
20 5940 514 4460 1 137 0
11 5940 125 4535 12 135 0
30 5810 5810 4560 4590 135 0

Further on down, they each get into component specs,
for example:

D4      
LED-V   
Small LED
6435 5690 6705 5825 81 15 6470 5725

Regards
Yvet

--- Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If the files are older than Autotrax and don't load
> into Autotrax, 
> something is wrong. Before Autotrax, in the
> beginning, when the world 
> was new, was Easytrax, also called Tango Series I in
> the U.S. 
> Autotrax would have recognized an Easytrax file
> (though there might 
> be a special load process, I was not an Autotrax
> user, except for the 
> demo version, which I used to develop a Tango Series
> II - Autotrax 
> converter (in both directions).
> 
> But version 3? Version 3 would be later. Just before
> Protel 98.
> 
> So when you open the files with a text editor, what
> do you see at the top?
> 
> Is it a binary file or an ASCII text file? Early
> versions *only* came 
> as ASCII text files.
> 
> In short, what makes you think that these are Protel
> files?
> 
> 
>  
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