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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:52:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Griffith <dave AT 661 DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] very old .pcb file
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Patrick Bernaud wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> David Griffith writes:
> > I'm trying to read a very old .pcb file dating from 1995 with PCB version
> > 20091103.  This results in a segfault.  Would someone please take a look
> > at http://661.org/tmp/ramcard.pcb and help me out?
>
> It does not like a layer with an empty name: if you edit your file
> and set a name for layer 5 (line 1237) pcb will open your design.
>
> pcb from master has the same behaviour.

Got it.  Thanks!  Shouldn't PCB catch this sort of thing and complain 
instead of segfaulting?

-- 
David Griffith
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