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In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, Steve Bliss wrote:
> > A backwards-compatibility switch is good -- maybe with option to truncate (or
> > not) the description to fit 80 bytes per line?
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> If it's running in Windows, I think a backwards-compatible switch should use the
> Win32 API to get the short filename (with the ~1 at the end, usually, determined
> using PathGetShortPath) and use that in place of the long filename.
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> --Travis
Sounds easy, but I think nobody can read that short filenames that would appear
in the MLCad list!?
cu
mikeheide
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| (...) For MLCAD it doesn't matter. Steve said that MLCAD worked fine with long filenames inside parts.lst. The only reason to put the short filename in is for other programs that might have problems with the long filename. And as long as mklist is (...) (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| (...) If it's running in Windows, I think a backwards-compatible switch should use the Win32 API to get the short filename (with the ~1 at the end, usually, determined using PathGetShortPath) and use that in place of the long filename. --Travis (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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