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Re: Primitives and long file names
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Wed, 9 Mar 2011 03:03:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Joerg Sommerer wrote:
> > new parts. But what do DOS users do with already existing parts longer than 8
> > characters (e.g. http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?s=4345bp03c01)?
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> With a few longer that 8 charcter named parts, it's still relativly manageable
> to make workarounds for the DOS enviroment. With primitives however, having to
> do so will become much more painfull and problematic.
The plus for primitives is that they don't have to be human readable. It's
possible to develop a system which more than covers the full range without
breaking 8 characters.
For example we use up to four characters (eg. 3-16) for fractions which are
always XX/48 where XX is <48. This could be done in one character. Likewise the
primitive type could be described in one character too. Take two characters to
label the short-form and you have four characters free for radii etc.
Tim
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| (...) As long as you provide parts authors with a cheat sheet, this should work too. Regardless, the naming scheme should be according to a regular system. -Mike (15 years ago, 28-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)
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