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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 17 Oct 2000 21:59:17 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Carsten Schmitz writes:
> Hello Steve,
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> I don't know what happened to the source code of Ldraw and Ledit?
> LDraw and Ledit are the only programs that are limited to the 8.3 scheme
> (perhaps one or two old tools too). As far as I know there are easy to use
> and easy to implement source routines that makes it possible for old
> programs to read long filenames (I know it for Pascal...).
That is not the real problem, there are still operating systems in use that
simply don't support long filenames. We are a world wide community with
participants from regions that are less wealthy then yours, and these might
still use machines that are only capable to operate with MS-DOS for instance.
Greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| Hello Manfred, I don't want to be ignorant, but... - World is evolving. Even not so wealthy users should be now at a development level of Windows 95a (first version) (how many years Win95 exists now?). - The 'old' technology (here the 8.3 filenames) (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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| Hello Steve, I don't know what happened to the source code of Ldraw and Ledit? LDraw and Ledit are the only programs that are limited to the 8.3 scheme (perhaps one or two old tools too). As far as I know there are easy to use and easy to implement (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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