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Re: Capitalization of filenames
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:11:54 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tony Hafner wrote:

It seems like a while back, parts were supposed to have the extension
".DAT".  But I'm seeing that all the links on ldraw.org seem to point to
files with ".dat" at the end.  What's the scoop- are lower-case filenames
considered ideal now?  Which ldraw tools are case sensitive?

Basically, the LDraw filenames should be considered case-insensitive.
The only time I'd want to have uppercase .DAT extensions is to
references to STUD*.DAT that should always be drawn, regardless of
stud-drawing mode.  This is an old feature/bug of LEdit -- when
stud-drawing is set to lines-only, references to STUD.DAT are still
fully drawn.

Steve



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  Capitalization of filenames
 
It seems like a while back, parts were supposed to have the extension ".DAT". But I'm seeing that all the links on ldraw.org seem to point to files with ".dat" at the end. What's the scoop- are lower-case filenames considered ideal now? Which ldraw (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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