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Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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lugnet.cad.dat.parts
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Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:40:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Timothy Gould wrote:
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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 a meta) and
> > use the short name for PARTS.LST and the long name for
> > PARTSLONGNAMES.LST, otherwise add the part to both lists.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Enjoy,
>
> Don
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
parts/subparts in /SHORT). That way people could make their models as usual
(with long filenames) but when neccessary prepare it for software which will
break.
Tim
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| (...) 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, (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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