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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 18:10:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > I know that given the way LPub and LSynth are written and the
> > language libraries used, switching away from the 8.3 limitation
> > represents a significant amount of work.
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> This suprises me. Can you elaborate on this? If we in the LSC are
> going to make an informed decision on this issue, understanding why
> this is the case with LPub/LSynth would help us greatly. I know all
> Win32 API calls work fine with long filenames, and I had assumed that
> Delphi worked fine with them also. (LPub is Delphi C++, right?)
Call me paranoid, but long filenames make me nervous because of the
other worms packaged along with them (like unicode or UTF-8, blech!).
Sure your filenames might look great on Windows, but try to bring them
over to another filesystem, or download them automagically over the
internet, and you might not get what you paid for. I think they're
fine for model files, but the library is probably better off without
them.
Don
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Message has 2 Replies: | | Re: Getting rif off the 8.3 nomenclature???
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| (...) We are talking about official files in the parts library here. They're not going to have Unicode or special characters. If this isn't already explicitly in the spec for library filenames, we can certainly add it. As a side note, UTF-8 and (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| (...) This suprises me. Can you elaborate on this? If we in the LSC are going to make an informed decision on this issue, understanding why this is the case with LPub/LSynth would help us greatly. I know all Win32 API calls work fine with long (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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