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Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Timothy Gould wrote:
> 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 a meta) and
> use the short name for PARTS.LST and the long name for
> PARTSLONGNAMES.LST, otherwise add the part to both lists.
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> That way old software will still run although some of the parts
> names will be a bit non-standard but new software can have a
> decent name.
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, so this wouldn't do
much for long subpart filenames.
Enjoy,
Don
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| (...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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