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Re: 11-16 primitives?
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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:58:59 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Steve Bliss wrote:
A backwards-compatibility switch is good -- maybe with option to truncate (or
not) the description to fit 80 bytes per line?

If it's running in Windows, I think a backwards-compatible switch should use the
Win32 API to get the short filename (with the ~1 at the end, usually, determined
using PathGetShortPath) and use that in place of the long filename.

--Travis



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  Re: 11-16 primitives?
 
(...) Sounds easy, but I think nobody can read that short filenames that would appear in the MLCad list!? cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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(...) That would be good, I think. (...) Can you have two levels? Level One that still shows the warnings, but doesn't stop, and Level Two suppresses all warnings. (...) I'd keep the current line-format for all parts conforming to the 8.3 format, (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)

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