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Re: L3P-Bug using LGEO
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:42:48 GMT
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--SNIP--
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> Surely the extension is entirely to identify the type of file, otherwise they
> would be irrelevant?
> While I understand that .dat is a widely used extension it would be foolish if
> any change was to .ldr (for parts), another extension would make much more
> sense. (for human AND machine differentiation between models and parts)
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> Tim
IMO the best solution would be to have a magic number at the start of the parts.
eg. 0 LDP or something. That way the 'partness' of each part would be quicly
verified merely be reading the first five bytes of the file regardless of
extension.
Tim
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