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Re: 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
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Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:24:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > 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.
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> Yes, yes, and I'm guessing yes.
why not just say any of the following (':', '/' and '\') can be used as a
delimiter, and it doesn't matter which you use - it's up to the program to
translate any of those to the correct one for the OS?
> > 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.
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> I think you are correct - file name case should be preserved.
defenitly!
:)
Dan
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| (...) 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 - (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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