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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:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:36:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Tore Eriksson wrote:

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

With tongue slightly in cheek, I believe it is time to accept the technological advancements of 1984. If DOS wasn’t obsolete the day it was written, it definitely was within a few years. DOS filenames tend to be inscrutable, and there just isn’t any reason to force them on unsuspecting 21st-century users—especially those using systems which never had such limitations in the first place. And as others mentioned, programs which still talk DOS are dead codebases anyway.

Allen

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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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