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Re: Future extension of dat files?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:35:28 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Don Heyse wrote:
> I don't suppose you could humor me and type:
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> assoc .ldr
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> at a command prompt and tell me what you get.
I get this:
C:\>assoc .ldr
.ldr=l3.dat
C:\>assoc .dat
.dat=L3.dat
But I was mucking with assoc yesterday, so don't assume this is the
normal result of the registry mucking I did before then.
> Since we seem to be
> standardizing on the .ldr extension and the application/x-ldraw, it
> might be nice to standardize the rest of the junk Windows seems to
> use to associate extensions with mime types. I mentioned this once
> before here:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=5606
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> At that time I suggested switching from ldlite.document to
> lcad.document. However I noticed the reference at ldraw.org
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> http://www.ldraw.org/reference/mime
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> suggests LDraw.DAT.File for the associated file type. That sounds
> reasonable to me, except perhaps we should switch DAT to LDR, or just
> go with LDraw.File.
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> Any thoughts?
Probably LDraw.Document would be good, having *any* standard would be
better. :)
Steve
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| (...) I don't suppose you could humor me and type: assoc .ldr at a command prompt and tell me what you get. Since we seem to be standardizing on the .ldr extension and the application/x-ldraw, it might be nice to standardize the rest of the junk (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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