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  Re: Prefix character on meta commands?
 
(...) As the author of the meta command section of the 1.0.0.0 spec, my intention wasn't to twist the arms of developers into adopting the "!" prefix or the program name requirement. For non-official LDraw.org programs, I meant for these rules to be (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 
  Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
 
(...) To elaborate: Suppose you have a part abcdefg.dat with loads of subparts (Too many to name with the 8.3 restriction). Just make a new subdirectory LDRAW/PARTS/S/abcdefg/ and put the numbered subparts in there (like (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
 
(...) Darn! In that case I'd suggest making a short filename preparer as a backwards compatibility measure. Perhaps it would bring all longfilename parts into an MPD (with shortened names) or something similar (eg. creates short name versions (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
 
(...) That's an interesting approach, but I don't know if it'll work for the subpart files that started this thread. I think mklist only handles files in the PARTS directory. The subpart filenames would be embedded in the part files that use them, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
 
  Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
 
(...) Well I've just spent some time on another way. You can make a new version of mklist that works as follows: scan through the parts, if a filename is long then make a new copy of the file with a standardised short file name (possible assigned in (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)


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