padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell[Admin]) (06/20/83)
I posted the "cifstr" announcement the other day. I received several questions about an automatic extension to CIF. I suggest the following: User Code 8: text 8 [-s scale] [-o x,y] [-l layer] "string" ; -s scale scale the 16(vertical) by 8(hor) characters. -o x,y origin of string to be x,y -l layer set layer "string" alphanumeric string to be drawn. If you use this convention, I have a handy little program called cifstrip that will expand and replace all the stuff. It also breaks things down, recenters symbols, and generally massages CIF into a form so loved by Queens VLSIIC. A notice will be posted when source is available. Patrick Powell, U. Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.