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Subject:	Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad
Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2005 01:36:19 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Kevin L. Clague wrote: > If the new L3P allows blanks in file names, I can easily remove the check. It > is only in one place in the code. Once removed, the rest of the code is ready > for blanks in file names. I am currently going through the L3P code and I have now added support for filenames with spaces, both in linetype 1 and in "0 FILE xxx". It now uses the rest of the line as the filename. It also accepts filenames in double-quotes. /Lars

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		Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
Hmmm, I'm not sure if this effort is actually making things more compatible. (...) I just did a little testing myself. MLCad seems to strip off any whitespace (tabs and space characters) at the end of the line when it grabs the filename. Is that (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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		Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
(...) Hi Don, Using MLCad as a benchmark, the name with blanks is not enclosed in quotes. I use the remainder of the line, sans end of line as the file name. Alas, my efforts are for naught. L3P quietly ignores the lines that have names with (...) (20 years ago, 8-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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