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  28 <h1><a name="release_notes_for_gsch2pcb_tutorial" id="release_notes_for_gsch2pcb_tutorial">Release Notes for gsch2pcb Tutorial</a></h1>
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  31 <p>
  32 These are the relase notes to the <a href="http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial" class="wikilink1" title="geda:gsch2pcb_tutorial">gsch2pcb tutorial</a>.
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  35 <li class="level1"><div class="li">  Starting with the PCB-20050609 snapshot, PCB has a new Gtk user interface which replaces the old Xaw interface and this tutorial will describe using the Gtk interface.  If you are using the Xaw PCB, you can look at this <a href="http://www.geda.seul.org/docs/current/tutorials/gsch2pcb/tutorial-old.html" class="urlextern" title="http://www.geda.seul.org/docs/current/tutorials/gsch2pcb/tutorial-old.html"  rel="nofollow"> older version of this tutorial,</a> which is also not up to date with info on the gEDA gafrc files.</div>
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  37 </ul>
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  39 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> If you have a gschem version less than 20030525 these tutorial examples may not work as expected.</div>
  40 </li>
  41 </ul>
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  43 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> If you have gEDA version 20030901 installed such that you are using its included gsch2pcb 0.9 and you are getting an error:<pre class="code">ERROR: Unbound variable: open-output-pipe</pre>
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  45 <p>
  46  then the problem is syntax in <em>gnet-gsch2pcb.scm</em> that worked in guile 1.4 but does not work in guile 1.6.  You’ll need to upgrade to using at least gsch2pcb 1.0.1 to solve this problem.
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  52 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> As of about 1/9/2004 <acronym title="Concurrent Versions System">CVS</acronym> PCB versions changed to using a hi resolution output file format which will require using at least gsch2pcb-1.4.</div>
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  56 <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <strong> Mini Changelog</strong></div>
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  58 <li class="level2"><div class="li">  5/16/2007 Imported into wiki.  We’ll see if it’s worth keeping this Changelog up to date after this.</div>
  59 </li>
  60 <li class="level2"><div class="li">  6/23/2005 Added gafrc file info to setup section.  Updated the tutorial to use the Gtk PCB.</div>
  61 </li>
  62 <li class="level2"><div class="li">  1/10/2004 Corrected my sloppy PCB file elements which had silkscreen lines overlapping solder pads.</div>
  63 </li>
  64 <li class="level2"><div class="li">  12/23/2003 Added comments about new <acronym title="Concurrent Versions System">CVS</acronym> PCB versions which have the m4 and newlib directories default installed under /usr/share or /usr/local/share.</div>
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  76 The tutorial was originally prepared by Bill Wilson (bill&ndash;at&ndash;gkrellm.net). <a href="http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gsch2pcb/gsch2pcb.html" class="urlextern" title="http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gsch2pcb/gsch2pcb.html"  rel="nofollow">gsch2pcb Home</a>
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