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On 10/28/2012 03:21 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>
>> No spaces around the ::
> More scecifically: "Import::src0" looks like a syntax with thwo items
> divided by the double colon. Hoewver, the code treats it as a single
> string, that is not parsed in any sophisticated way.
>
> ---<)kaimartin(>---

Thank you, DJ Delorie and Kai-Martin Knaak, for your advice.  I finally 
got the Import feature to work, thus modernizing my way of working with 
gEDA.  Yes, I found out the hard way that there should be no spaces 
around the '::'! I have a couple of observations/questions:

(1)  Going through gyrations (deleting the pcb file I was working with) 
because I had spaces on either side of the '::', I observed that, 
somehow, pcb remembered the library file settings, even after the 
original pcb file I used to set them was gone!  (I still invoked pcb 
from the same directory.)  Does pcb write library preferences in some 
secret file?  If so, why didn't pcb remember the library preferences as 
they were set in the pcb file with the finished project (which I started 
with gsch2pcb)?

(2) Inexplicably, the footprint referred to by a part in gschem was 
missing from my files (I probably failed to sync my gaf directories on 
this computer with the corresponding ones at work).  The part had three 
slots, all referring to the nonexistent footprint.  I fired up gschem 
and corrected the footprint of the FIRST slot ONLY, saved the gschem 
file, and re-imported everything (since I got the hang of the importing 
process).  The part came through fine!  This seems to indicate that pcb 
only looks at the footprint of the first slot only.