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Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
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Date: 
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:30:04 GMT
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Carsten Schmitz wrote:


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

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

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  Re: Patterned Parts Numbering
 
Hello Tore! (...) recall that Norton Commander 5.0 for DOS (...) No. FAT16 has only limitations in the root directory for maximum number of files. That NC was limited to 2000 files was a memory allocation problem. What I meant was: 1) The first (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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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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