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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> When the LSC updated the spec to allow 21.3 filenames, I don't think any of us were aware that this would create a problem for PARTS.LST.
Were any other issues anticipated?
> However, looking at the file, there's a chance that MLCAD will work
> perfectly well with longer filenames inside it.
I did a short test of MLCAD with a modified PARTS.LST. The results were mixed -
MLCAD seems OK using an altered-format PARTS.LST file, but re-generating
PARTS.LST from MLCAD results in an invalid file.
For the test, I copied 55706.dat to 55706longfile.dat, and changed the first
line of my PARTS.LST to:
55706longfile.dat Animal Bat Wing 9 x 9 with Axle
(trailing space chars trimmed for this post, but left in the test file)
MLCAD was perfectly happy to use this modified file, and seemed to work just
fine. I examined the parts tree control, dragged the part into the edit panel,
etc.
However, MLCAD's "Scan Part" command did not work as well. It generated a new
PARTS.LST, writing the new line as:
55706longfile.Animal Bat Wing 9 x 9 with Axle
When I exited and re-entered MLCAD, it seemed to ignore this entry -- the part
did not appear in the parts tree.
I also tried running mklist -- it crashed, hard, on the long file name. :(
Steve
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| (...) If I understand that, this would mean that we could use a new mklist tool and we can start using that long filenames. The possibility to use MLCad for generating PARTS.LST will be away, but this only a little cut. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 25-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) When the LSC updated the spec to allow 21.3 filenames, I don't think any of us were aware that this would create a problem for PARTS.LST. However, looking at the file, there's a chance that MLCAD will work perfectly well with longer filenames (...) (15 years ago, 25-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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