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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:02:36 +0200
From: "Bert Timmerman (bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Where did these features go?
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John Doty wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Svenn Are Bjerkem 
> (svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com <mailto:svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com>) 
> [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com <mailto:geda-user AT delorie DOT com>] 
> <geda-user AT delorie DOT com <mailto:geda-user AT delorie DOT com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> looking for previous work on VHDL in gschem and gnetlist I happened 
>> to find this link:
>> http://www.iti.uni-stuttgart.de/studies/ss06/hapra/gschem_howto/index.html
>>
>> It describes two interesting features:
>> gnetlist -g symcreate
>> Naming nets something_31_downto_0 to get std_logic_vectors.
>>
>> I cannot immediately find any traces of such features in the current 
>> code base for geda-gaf, but maybe it disappeared years ago.
>
> I have backups of gEDA installations going back to 2002, and I cannot 
> find a “symcreate” back end. I wonder where it came from and what 
> happened to it.
>
> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
>
> http://www.noqsi.com/
>
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com <mailto:jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
>
>
>
Hi all,

It happens to live in a tarball here:

http://ljh4timm.home.xs4all.nl/downloads/geda_sch2sym.tar.gz

AFAIK it never made into the gaf repo.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.