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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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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.
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> Were any other issues anticipated?
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> > However, looking at the file, there's a chance that MLCAD will work
> > perfectly well with longer filenames inside it.
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> 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:
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> 55706longfile.dat Animal Bat Wing 9 x 9 with Axle
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> (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:
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> 55706longfile.Animal Bat Wing 9 x 9 with Axle
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> 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. :(
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> Steve
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
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| (...) I could update the mklist sources to work handle filenames with 25 chars I was going to add a quietmode commandline option this weekend anyhow. Should I allow 25 chars as the default, and perhaps include an optional command line arg to (...) (17 years ago, 25-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) Were any other issues anticipated? (...) 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. (...) (17 years ago, 25-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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