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Re: Testing long filenames was Re: Unofficial directory (with non-standard name lenght)?
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Fri, 2 Mar 2007 03:08:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Timothy Gould wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Timothy Gould wrote:
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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
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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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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 the next step, using space chars in a path or file
name is no doubt equal to asking for trouble.
I suggest we all try to do programs that support all kinds of file names,
but when naming official folders and files, we stick to the problem free
standard to avoid unnecessary bug reports and support requests.
(As I took my first steps into the world of PC in pre-Windows environemts,
I find the non-DOS naming conventions (or rather, lack of conventions) very
strange) ;)
/Tore
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I’m not sure about 98 and its ilk but I’ve never had any problems with long
filenames in XP for l3p (and possible other command lines although I can’t
remember any off hand).
I would certainly recommend against using spaces in filenames as Linux
(and possibly MacOSX) won’t like it.
Tim
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And sorry to reply to myself... Could people using older operating systems
test this?
I’m happy to maintain the status quo if there are problems but if no-one
finds problems then I think we make the majority suffer for something that
isn’t really a problem.
Tim
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Well, I made a small program in Delphi 7 that lists the command line parameters,
drag and dropped a file named “LongFileName.dat” in it, and here is the
surprising result: http://web.telia.com/~u66203131/pix/ShowParms.jpg (Running on
a Win98SE PC.)
So I think long file names still has the potential to cause problems. That is,
if I’m not guilty of bad programming in this test.
It would be interesting if someone could voulenteer to try the result on an XP
machine. Here’s my test program:
http://web.telia.com/~u66203131/pix/ShowParmameters.exe
/Tore
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