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How about .ldraw? Just thinking differently. (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I think we should try to keep the 8.3 filename convention from DOS because of ldraw/ledit. We can just use mpd as someone suggested. (...) Sounds like an Apple guy talking :) Leonardo (24 years ago, 3-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Well to get back to 8.3 it only takes chopping off the last 2 chars, and Tim likes .LDR . How DO you give a file a 5 letter extension in Windows? I tried it (Win95 handy...) and it keeps a secret .dat extension after that too... I wanted to (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Erik Olson (...) Turn off that annoying "Hide extensions of known file types" option in Folder Options (or something similar) Windows 95/98/etc doesn't seem to care how long file extensions are (*.html, for example), three letters is just the norm. (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Tim (...) I like ldr too. (...) to (...) I use win2k here at work, I'll try on winme when I get home. I think you need to have the option to show file extensions enabled if you're using windows explorer, otherwise you can rename from a DOS (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Oh, and it would mangle it a lot more than that for DOS display... 3193~1.ldr --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:GCsCrG.8n4@lugnet.com... (...) Yep, here's a few reasons: If .ldr is the standard file, people will mentally associate the editors - MLCad, LeoCAD, BrikDraw3D - viewers LDView, L3Lab - as (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Tim, I have a listing of thousands of file name extensions available to me. I will search it tonight and let you all know tomorrow if the ideas you all are talking about have been used before, if you would like. LMK, Matt (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GCsEHM.CD5@lugnet.com... (...) Go for it, that would be cool! Thanks! -Tim (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Will do...look for a post tomorrow. Matt (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Sorry it took so long for me to get this back. I scoured my sources and all of the Internet databases I know of, and as far as I can tell, you are free and clear on all of these extensions: .ldr .ldl .lds .mpd .mlc I wonder if someone didn't do this (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GCtx8C.8C3@lugnet.com... (...) Cool. I'd prefer the primary file extension to reflect the 'LDraw' name - 'ldr.' Some further discussion may be in order about DAT files having more than (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) We could introduce a new meta-statement to track to the language extensions used by a model file. This would allow .dat, .ldl, .mpd, and .mlc files to all use a single extension. The .lds format is different enough that it should have a unique (...) (24 years ago, 7-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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