gEDA-user: request for newbie help

2010-07-18 Thread jim
i've tried to find what i want in the docs without luck. (i've read eric raymond's and rick moen's notes re asking questions.) my background: i've worked as an electronic bench tech and have held several different kinds of jobs in the computer industry (sys adm, programmer/analyst,

Re: gEDA-user: request for newbie help

2010-07-18 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Sun, 2010-07-18 at 09:58 -0700, jim wrote: what i want to do is to activate the circuit by setting the battery to some voltage value and the pot to some resistance value and read the voltage difference between the wiper and the bottom of the pot. here are points of detail: * it's

Re: gEDA-user: Syntax error line 20 with xgsch2pcb

2010-07-18 Thread kai-martin knaak
blueeag...@gmail.com wrote: When I do an update layout with xgsch2pcb I get a syntax error at line 20. This is what is at line 20.What is wrong with this other than there is nothing inside the brackets. Do your footprint names contain hyphens (-)? If so, you may be yet another victim