1 .TH pads_backannotate 1 "@DATE@" "gEDA Project" @VERSION@
5 \- backannotates changes from a PADS engineering change order (ECO) file to schematic
8 .B pads_backannotate \-h\||\-\-help
10 .B pads_backannotate \-V\||\-\-version
14 .I ecofile.eco infile1.sch [infile2.sch ...]
21 program reads an engineering change order (ECO) file generated by the PADS program
22 and backannotates the requested changes to a gschem schematic or schematics.
23 Refer to the PADS manual for a complete description of the ECO file format.
28 prints help message and exits
31 Leave the modified schematic files in new files
32 whose names are generated by appending
35 original file names. The default is to overwrite the original.
41 prints version information and exits
47 if all files processed successfully,
49 if the command did not complete successfully.
52 Rather than parsing and processing schematic files directly, this utility should
53 be rewritten using the gEDA scheme API. This would take advantage of the existing
54 parsers for the schematic files.
56 Reference designator renaming is fully supported. Pin and gate swapping is parsed
57 but not automatically applied to the schematic database. Instead, a report listing
58 the manual pin and gate swapping that is required. The other features of the ECO
59 file are not supported yet.
62 gnetlist(1), gschem(1)
64 Also refer to "Forward/Backward Annotation Between gEDA/gaf and PADS PowerPCB" which
65 may be found at http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:fbabgapp