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From: "Frank Miles (fpm AT u DOT washington DOT edu) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] [pcb] mainline: redundant attributes: bug or feature?
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>You can add, delete or change most default attributes
>shown in gschem's Attribute_Dialog by editing the
>entries in the "system-gschemrc" file.  Look in that
>file for something like:
>   (attribute-name "netname")
>Those are the list of default attributes shown in the
>dialog.

>If you want to add an attribute_name such as
>my_attrib1, add the entry:
>   (attribute-name "my_attrib1")

>Or, if you do not want to touch the system-gschemrc
>file, then create a "gafrc" file in your project
>folder, then just add that line into the file.
>Make sure you have an extra blank line at the end
>of the file, just in case...  The new attribute name
>will show up at the end of the dialog list.

Thanks Paul and Bert!  This bears investigation, sounds very
promising!  I knew about the attribs effect on BOM generation
(which I use), no idea that it might help gsymcheck accept
custom attribute keys.

 	-Frank