Ken Patel wrote: > > Our layout house deliverables state following line. > > "Drill file in ASCII format leading zeroes, format 2.4 EOB LF/CR " . I > couple of questions in that regards. > > (1)Can someone explain me what is "format leading zeroes, format 2.4 EOB LF/CR"? I read it this way: ASCII format (as opposed to EIA encoded paper tape!) leading zeroes (probably means suppressed ie 1000 instead of 01000) format 2.4 (coordinates two places before decimal, 4 after) EOB LF/CR (line-feed/carriage-return marks end-of-buffer (line of data) (as opposed to gerber data which (is normally "*")) Hope this helps, -- Jeff Seeger Applied CAD Knowledge Inc Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879 jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800 ################################################################ TechNet E-Mail Forum provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ################################################################ To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TechNet <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TechNet ################################################################ Please visit IPC web site (http://jefry.ipc.org/forum.htm) for additional information. For the technical support contact Dmitriy Sklyar at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.311 ################################################################