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Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com

Hi,

> This said, it was also probably the weakest of my arguments. You simply
> can't mixup Gerber photoplotter files and Excellon drill files, therefore
> independent number spaces should never cause a problem.

I imagine that in the worst case that you could add a check box to the 
gerber dialog that enables an independent number space ("start Excellon 
drill count from one") for the Excellon files.

Geoffrey