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Subject:	Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:54:07 GMT
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So far, we have maintained the old DOS convention of max. 8 chars and no SPACE used in folder names. I realize that fewer and fewer programs and utils are made in DOS evironments, maybe I’m the only to still make quick ‘n’ dirty programs in Borland TC++ or in its likeness.

But yet, I haven’t heard anyting of letting go of the standrad either.

My question is: Do we still maintain the DOS naming convention in LDraw?

/Tore

(FOT: lugnet.cad.dev)

Personally I’m against maintaining it. It forces us into strange naming conventions for something which probably affects no users of the software.

Tim

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		Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
(...) It it really so? We still use renderers and utilities that have command line inputs, and I don't know but I have a strong feeling that long names may cause problems like "Unofficial" turs into "Unoffi~1" followed by path not found errors. And (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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		Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)? (Was: LDView 3.1 on Mac OS X!)
(...) So far, we have maintained the old DOS convention of max. 8 chars and no SPACE used in folder names. I realize that fewer and fewer programs and utils are made in DOS evironments, maybe I'm the only to still make quick 'n' dirty programs in (...) (18 years ago, 28-Feb-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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