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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Date:
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Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:29:54 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> > Longer term, we are going to need a different, better solution for this.
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
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> I can't remember the last time "dropping DOS support" came up, but it seems
> like a very long time ago! Is "real DOS" (not real-mode DOS :o) still really
> something that needs to be supported? I understand that DOS as a filesystem
> format needs to be supported, but since Micros~1 added the ~ thingie in file
> names, "DOS" (e.g., pre-NTFS Windows) could support long filenames.
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> Does anyone still use an old version of PKZIP that won't support filenames
> longer than 8.3?
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> Does anyone still run DOS the OS? (Meaning real, actual DOS -- like 5.0, etc.)
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> --Todd
Please DO NOT start using long file names in the ldraw library. Everyone
(including me) who uses ledit will not be able to use those parts
properly.
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| (...) I can't remember the last time "dropping DOS support" came up, but it seems like a very long time ago! Is "real DOS" (not real-mode DOS :o) still really something that needs to be supported? I understand that DOS as a filesystem format needs (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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