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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:09:22 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, BramL@JUNO.com (Bram Lambrecht) writes:
In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, braml@juno.com (Bram Lambrecht) writes:
I did some testing.  LDLite functions fine with subdirs in MPD filenames
(ex:
0 FILE foo\bar\test.dat
works fine, as long as any references to that file are
1 ... foo\bar\test.dat
LDraw works fine with subdirs, as we already knew.

Awesome.  That's so cool!
One question, though:  Does it require backslashes or does it allow forward
slashes as well?

Just tested:
LEdit, LDraw, LDLite, and Jacob's MPD-Splitter all work with forward slashes
as well!  (Again, for Jacob's splitter, the dir must already exist.)

Excellent, that's great news!

One thing that MS-DOS didn't totally screw up back in the early days -- even
though it copied CP/M's blunder of using \ instead of / -- was the low-level
functions for accessing files.  Surprisingly, many DOS functions actually
accept either \ or / as the directory delimiter in input stings even though
they output only \.  As a result, most high-level functions and applications
actually work with / as well as \.

The only time that / doesn't work under DOS/Windows apps is then the code
explicitly checks for / and interprets it specially before passing the
string on to the filesystem.

--Todd



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  Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
 
(...) Just tested: LEdit, LDraw, LDLite, and Jacob's MPD-Splitter all work with forward slashes as well! (Again, for Jacob's splitter, the dir must already exist.) --Bram (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)

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