From: ian <ian>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 23:22:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: usagae comment
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usagae comment
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diff --git a/pcb/pcb-panelise b/pcb/pcb-panelise
index 1289063..69f251d 100755
--- a/pcb/pcb-panelise
+++ b/pcb/pcb-panelise
@@ -1,4 +1,32 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#
+# Panelises PCB layouts
+#
+# Usage:
+#       pcb-panelise [options] layout1.pcb layout2.pcb ...
+#
+# Options:
+#      -gTHOU   set inter-board gap to THOU
+#               (should occur _before_ the board which _precedes_ the
+#               gap, and then affects all later gaps)
+#
+# Layouts are currently simply placed parallel from top to bottom.
+# Making it put them somewhere else wouldn't be _too_ hard; basically,
+# make an option for the user to specify xpos and ypos between layouts.
+#
+# Rotation will be slightly more difficult and will involve a careful
+# review of Stuff, to see where additional transformations etc. are needed.
+# It might be eaiser to use pcb to rotate the boards.
+#
+# We use a trick to make net and element names unique: we append
+# spaces to the names in the 2nd and subsequent boards.  This seems to
+# work fine in pcb snapshot 1.99.20040530-0.0.1 but means that
+#   - you mustn't feed this program's output to itself!
+#   - you probably don't want to edit the output (but you didn't
+#     edit output files anyway, did you?)
+#
+# On the other hand, pcb's builtin netlist correspondence checker and
+# DRC system ought to work properly.
 
 use strict qw(vars);