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Subject:	Re: Primitives and long file names
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad
Date:	Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:23:38 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Philippe Hurbain wrote: > Now that long file names are allowed in LDraw and on Parts Tracker, what should > we do with primitives for which name systematics gives filenames length > 8 > characters? > > - Continue to cram everything in 8 characters nonetheless, eg. > http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=p/48/1-16ri21.dat > http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=p/48/11-24cyl.dat > with some extreme, almost meaningless cases like > http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=p/48/11-48r19.dat > > - Go above 8 chars, like > http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=p/48/5-24rin24.dat or > http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=p/48/1-16con24.dat but then it's not > coherent with present official primitives names such as 48\1-16ri13.dat or > 48\5-48ri32.dat. As there are few such official files, incoherency could be > cured by a few ~movedto > > Thoughts? > > Philo Something to keep in mind: I think you should pad leading zeros. I.e. turn "4" into "04". Doing so makes it possible to sort files by name in a file manager. -Mike

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		Primitives and long file names
Now that long file names are allowed in LDraw and on Parts Tracker, what should we do with primitives for which name systematics gives filenames length > 8 characters? - Continue to cram everything in 8 characters nonetheless, eg. (URL) some (...) (16 years ago, 3-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad)

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