Ken, Thanks for your response. I have some general knowledge of Perl. I would be very intrested to see if your program will work for me. I do the majority of my programing in Axl-Skill or AWK. So, it is possible that I may use your program as a road map if it does not work for me as it is. Thanks for your help. Marcus ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ I have written a perl program which generates an ipc356 netlist from an allegro .brd file. I can either help you develop your own or send you mine. You will have to understand something of perl in order to adapt my program for your use however. Ken Barrett Cisco Systems WBU 170 West Tasman Dr. San Jose, CA. 95134-1706 408.526.5625 [log in to unmask] *************************************************************************** * TechNet mail list is provided as a service by IPC using SmartList v3.05 * *************************************************************************** * To unsubscribe from this list at any time, send a message to: * * [log in to unmask] with <subject: unsubscribe> and no text. * *************************************************************************** * If you are having a problem with the IPC TechNet forum please contact * * Dmitriy Sklyar at 847-509-9700 ext. 311 or email at [log in to unmask] * ***************************************************************************