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Re: Part Command (1)
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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:35:04 GMT
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Hmm, I think I might add somthing to my dat extractor program(1) that would
let you choose to convert the name to 8.3 formart when it's run.
-Matt
(1) http:\\rapturesoft.hypermart.net\datconvert.zip
btw the program allows you easier removal of dat files from the newsgroup
postings

Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSU.4.10.10007131054180.26118-100000@is-sv...
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Michael Lachmann wrote:
Ok,

thanks - than I will restrict the possible file-names when entering for • mpd
to 8.3 notation to be compatible.

I personally am agaist this !

DAT/MPD files SHOULD be Compatible (NOT MUST BE), because people may have • no
desire to keep it's compatibility, it's a choice up to the user.
This offcourse is only related with peoples models, NOT oficial parts, • these
should be enforced to be in 8.3 file type format for portability.

Eventually, and this would be nice: the program could issue a warning if • the
user tryed to save the file with NON 8.3 file type references, but even • this
warning should be possible to be disabled, since someone who doesn't want
backwards compatibility or portability to other systems would be • constantly
"arressed" by the program. (How is that word spelled ??)

One final sugestion (that just came up), is to provide a converter which • would
replace all the NON 8.3 complient file references with complient ones, and
obviously copying the files with NON complient filenames to the respective
complient names defined/convert in the refering file.
Was I clear about the previous ideia ?

P.S.
  The converter could also allow for file case style forcing, to make DAT
porting to Non-case sensitive file systems easy.

See ya

Rui Martins





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(...) I personally am agaist this ! DAT/MPD files SHOULD be Compatible (NOT MUST BE), because people may have no desire to keep it's compatibility, it's a choice up to the user. This offcourse is only related with peoples models, NOT oficial parts, (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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