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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:32:55 GMT
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Hello Travis,
In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs writes:
> A few things (any old-timers feel free to correct me if I'm wrong about
> anything):
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> 1. LDraw/LEdit (the root of all derivative work) are DOS programs. As such,
> they can never support more than 8.3 filenames.
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...
> 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.
... if the source was never available my point if view has died.
It was just a suggestion IF the source of LDraw would be available (was an
indirect qestion in my former mail...)
> 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.
Sooner or later you will have to make concessions to this point of view
because its not possible to ignore the growing numbers of new parts.
Greetings,
Carsten
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| (...) Oh, you mean that a DOS directory is limited to a specific number of files? I recall that Norton Commander 5.0 for DOS is limited to, I think it was 2000 files... -- Tore Eriksson Sweden ICQ: 76066510 LEGO: MOC++++ FS,SP,TO++ TC+ LS YB@m (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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