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On Feb 7, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Chris Smith <space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com> wrote:

> So load the Lua library in your language of choice and go wild.

So, there’s a Lua library for sed? AWK? Forth? Mathematica?

Free-form formats aren’t so easy with line-oriented tools. XML, of course, has the same problem. But we don’t have to reinvent the gEDA schematic/symbol format at all. Parsing is trivial.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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