Re: gEDA-user: pcb command options

2009-09-18 Thread Ineiev
On 9/15/09, DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: What is the purpose of these options? In general, PCB allows its data files to be scripts instead of just plain data. That way, you could (for example) have a perl script that dynamically generates your font. Another example is to fix the pins

gEDA-user: pcb command options

2009-09-15 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
I just skipped through the prolific list of pcb options. Some of them I still don't quite understand. For example, there is a number of command options $ pcb -h 21 | grep command --font-command string --file-command stringCommand to read a file. --element-command string

Re: gEDA-user: pcb command options

2009-09-15 Thread Ineiev
Hi, Kai-Martin; On 9/15/09, Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: I just skipped through the prolific list of pcb options. Some of them I still don't quite understand. For example, there is a number of command options $ pcb -h 21 | grep command --font-command string --file-command

Re: gEDA-user: pcb command options

2009-09-15 Thread DJ Delorie
What is the purpose of these options? In general, PCB allows its data files to be scripts instead of just plain data. That way, you could (for example) have a perl script that dynamically generates your font. ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: pcb command options

2009-09-15 Thread KURT PETERS
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:02:49 -0400 From: DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com Subject: Re: gEDA-user: pcb command options To: geda-user@moria.seul.org Message-ID: 200909151402.n8fe2npv008...@envy.delorie.com What is the purpose of these options? In general, PCB

Re: gEDA-user: pcb command options

2009-09-15 Thread DJ Delorie
Well, pcb itself is a program, and if you tell it to run some other program, well that's no riskier than giving you root in the first place! The *.pcb files themselves do not store any commands. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org