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(...) No. LDraw commands are space-delimited, so a filename containing blanks would result in a 'Part' command with invalid formatting/syntax. That is, it would have too many parameters. (...) Hmm. It should be more explicit on this point. It should (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) <snip> (...) Thanks Steve! (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad)
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How about this for a File Naming section to be added to the file spec? (the following text is formatted for FTX display; it will be reformatted for HTML display when it is added to the LDraw.org File Format document) File Names in LDraw The LDraw (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) I like it Steve. Thanks much. I've gotten problem reports over the last week or so that brought this to light for me. MLCad allows blanks in file names, and LPub percieves them as separate tokens in a type 1 text line, and ignores the extra (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) See below. I've rearranged the order of the bullets to fit my comments. (...) Change to no whitespace characters, this way we exclude tabs, etc. (...) How about: Long file names are allowed. File names may be restricted to 8.3 format at the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) You might want to take a look at 2593.dat (including the author ;-). (In your defense, that's a really old file.) Having said that, most places in the parts library, backslash (\) is used as the delimiter in path names. However, there are some (...) (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yah, I think that was the first official part with sub-part files. (...) I'd lean toward updating the files with 's/' references to 's\'. The PT is definitely coded toward using only backslashes. Steve (20 years ago, 6-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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In lugnet.cad, Orion Pobursky wrote: <snip> (...) Is there anything that I can do to help get this ratified? (...) Kevin (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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