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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:56:24 GMT
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A few things (any old-timers feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about
anything):
1. LDraw/LEdit (the root of all derivative work) are DOS programs. As such,
they can never support more than 8.3 filenames.
2. James Jessiman--the author of these programs--died some time ago, and the
source was never made available. From what I understand, it is never likely
to be made available. Therefore, these programs are never going to be made
into Windows programs.
3. One of the charters of all LDraw derivative work is that backwards
compatibility be maintained. This doesn't mean that new features that are
unsupported by LDraw/LEdit can't be added, but that they will continue to
properly handle models which are created with new tools. Consequently, all
filenames in the part library must remain 8.3, and all new features in dat
files must be implemented as comments.
--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com)
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| Hello Travis, (...) That's no point. If the source of LDraw would be available it would be easy to implement long filename support... even in a DOS program. But... (...) ... if the source was never available my point if view has died. It was just a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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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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