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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 18:17:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts, Don Heyse wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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?)
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> 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
Couldn't that be dealt with by restricting the filenames to alphanumerics + the
usual suspects (_ etc.)? My understanding was those were unchanged in any
character set.
Tim
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| (...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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