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On Oct 29, 2012, at 5:45 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:

> Nobody has plans to forget the wider context.

Nobody ever *plans* to forget anything. Forgetting happens automatically when your focus is away from the thing you should be remembering.

>>> 
>>> I find it unfortunate they don't use gEDA's pcb for this task.
>> 
>> I've suggested it to my customers. Nobody likes it. I've tried to use pcb myself, and found it very difficult.
> 
> Perhaps you should work on this one instead of painting horror pictures here every day. Your patches are welcome.

As with the road network in downtown Boston, pcb cannot be fixed by patching it. You can't patch away a lack of coherent organization.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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