COPYRIGHT PCB, interactive printed circuit board design Copyright (C) 1994 Thomas Nau This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Contact addresses for paper mail and Email: Thomas Nau, Schlehenweg 15, 88471 Baustetten, Germany Thomas.Nau@medizin.uni-ulm.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the manual: Pcb is a handy tool for the X Window System build to design printed circuit boards. All coordinate units are 1/1000 inch. It implements the most needed features like: - A layout consists of lines, rectangles, elements (lines, pins and arcs), vias and text information seperated into several layers. Each of them is identified by a unique name and color (if supported by your display). - Multiple layers are supported in addition to an object package layer, an object pin layer and a via layer. - All files are 7 bit ASCII and might be preprocessed with any UNIX command that writes it's results to stdout (m4 preferred). - The layout grid is anywhere in the range from 1/1000 inch up to 250/1000 inch. The maximum is defined at compilation time. - Zooming is supported. - A copy of the current Data is saved in /tmp temporarily to ensure that nothing is lost during critical sections of the program. Pcb is intended to be a simple tool without memory and time consuming features like autorouter and autoplacement. It worked well for several people on an Atari platform till it was ported to X11 in 1994. Most of the settings can be specified by resources, passed in the command-line or changed at runtime. Layout related settings are saved together with the drawing elements. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This directory hols all the source files to compile pcb. The only requirements are: 1. An installation of X11 including header files and the athena widget library (HP users that means you) and. 2. An ANSI compiler (eg GCC) 3. A 'long' filesystem For installing the release refer to the file 'INSTALL'. For additional information to the manual 'pcb.man' or the texinfo file 'pcb.texi'. If you are updating read the files Whats_new_in_* Files: *.[chyl] source file of distribution *_font default font files Pcb.ad.raw template for default resources for application pcb.man.raw man-page-template Imakefile Imakefile of distribution create_sed_script.sh called from Makefile to create a man page which matches the defined directories demo a demo layout (graphic board for Atari ST with a TI 34010 and Brooktree CLUT) scalefont shell script example to scale font information dil* example files for elements README_FILES/* this file, 'how to install', a copy of the GNU Public License and some more information Please mail all bug reports, suggestions, additional features and element file which you've created to Thomas.Nau@medizin.uni-ulm.de so they can be inserted into following releases. Have fun, Thomas