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Subject: 
Paths, explicit drive references, and the case of file names (Was: MPD spec)
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:08:30 GMT
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Tore Eriksson wrote:

In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:

Should probably also add the following...

- paths are allowed, so are explicit drive references.

I am not sure about explicit drive references. Actually, I
think we should limit it to _relative_ paths.

We should also decide on a preferred - or maybe even fixed -
directory name delimiter. I suppose that it should be "\",
even though Unix and Mac people probably have different
preferences.

And what about the case of file names? My MPD splitter
converts all the file names to lower case before the files
are created. I suspect that this technically is wrong.

MPD Workshop cannot handle a reference to a non-existing directory, or
rather, it does not create a folder if necessary.

It is my impression that the MPD splitting _should_ create
any missing directories.


For example:
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dat/ideas/?n=171
The line:
0 FILE s\41342s01.dat
assumes that there already exists the folder 's\' in the target directory,
or else a runtime error is generated.

If I get it right, the mpd is compilant but not the software?

Agreed.

Play well,

Jacob
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Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Paths, explicit drive references, and the case of file names (Was: MPD spec)
 
(...) I'd prefer we say that local/absolute references are allowed, but provide guidelines to show that relative paths are usually better - easier to manage, easier to share, etc. (...) Yes, yes, and I'm guessing yes. (...) I think you are correct - (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: MPD spec
 
(...) MPD Workshop cannot handle a reference to a non-existing directory, or rather, it does not create a folder if necessary. For example: (URL) line: 0 FILE s\41342s01.dat assumes that there already exists the folder 's\' in the target directory, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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