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File Check utility (was: Case of part filenames?)
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:05:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> We'll never be totally rid of upper-case names, as long as we're
> distributing the parts with the DOS-based ARJ self-extracting
> executables. But for the master data on the ldraw.org server, all new
> submissions should be lowercase.
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> I'm slowly 'enhancing' the Submit function on the PT, to more carefully
> enforce the various file standards. I add new checks as I have time.
Thanks! Now I know.
One related thing- is there any way that you could add the new checks to the
"File Check" utility as well? I had a number of parts that I had scanned
with that tool and they came up OK. Then the submission form refused the
parts. Waaah!
--
Tony Hafner
www.hafhead.com
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 | | Re: Case of part filenames?
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| (...) You got it. It didn't use to matter, but now we're trying to move to lower case. Mostly. It didn't use to matter -- DOS's file system is 'case-insensitive'. But DOS always stores & returns filenames as all-caps, so most filenames were (...) (25 years ago, 19-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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