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Re: Proposal
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 4 May 2001 01:04:55 GMT
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"Erik Olson" <olsone@spamcop.net> wrote in message news:GCsCrG.8n4@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Leonardo Zide writes:
> > 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.
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> Well to get back to 8.3 it only takes chopping off the last 2 chars, and Tim
> likes .LDR .
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 'editors of the LDraw
file format' - which will then allow them to easily mentally associate with the
URL, www.ldraw.org.
LDraw is the name of the program that started it all - a little preservation of
history as we move away from James' original programs.
I don't think I know of any other program that uses that extension.
-Tim
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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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| (...) 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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