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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Uhhm, I don't think I reserved that much space for a single line argument in LDS. If you have such a long path name and use it in LDS, I guess it will overwrite other variables with most unpredictable results... /Tore (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) OK, well, having to explicitly use 'sets\xxxxz-yy\' isn't really that much of a handicap in the grand scheme of things. It would've just been a bonus/freebie not to have to use it; but it's not a real problem, right? (...) Yeh, I agree -- (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) 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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(...) I'd (...) The 'sets\xxxxz-yy\' is necessary. I think it's safe to say that if you built the model in LEdit using subdirs, and all the components showed up correctly in LEdit, all other programs will also handle the sub-dirs correctly. --Bram (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sounds interesting! Maybe we should wait until LDAO can display directories though... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hey, Todd, that's a kinda neat idea. :) Any one else like it? Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) c:\ldraw\models can (...) nice someday is (...) deep into (...) that other (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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Bram/Tim/Jeremy/Terry/etc.: Since it is looking more and more like subdirectories of c:\ldraw\models can be made to work very nicely, another directory that might be nice someday is an AUTHORS directory for personal models, for example: (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Awesome. That's so cool! One question, though: Does it require backslashes or does it allow forward slashes as well? (...) It looks like I have the same bug in mpdgarp*. Fortunately, some OS's allow the -p option on calls to the mkdir program: (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Me too -- in a big way -- it's so clean. If the two most vital applications (LEdit and LDLITE) do support subdirectories, then IMHO the win is so big that it's hard not to justify using subdirectories, even if it breaks a few things for a (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) 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. The problems (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) etc. I really like the idea of using subdirectories. It will keep the \models directory uncluttered and be easy to understand. Now you still have to deal subassemblies in the directory system. Would you name them: m1-a.dat 1st component of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Unzipping or splitting an MPD should create the directories correctly if they don't already exist (I hope). We should check if splitting an MPD with the current software does that. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Well, it was just an example to make a counterpoint against the other proposal. It it's the best possible namespace. (...) That's the whole point -- only backwards. (Go back and re-read the past few messages up this part of the tree... With (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Could someone or a couple people work on a comprehensive LDraw, LEdit, LDAO, etc.. glossary for use on ldraw.org? This would help a lot since we could reference pages with individual definitions on it from within paragraph text on the site. Remember (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This makes sense. Now, are we going to abandon the 8.3 or use subdirectories? Both?? If so, lets nail this puppy once and for all so he can't squirm and find an exception to the rule. The mere volume of email I've gone through today makes my (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I posted the URL on another node of this thread, but here it is again for convenience: (URL) a list of 238 duplicate set numbers. (...) Bah. Seriously, this is 1999, man. Tough beans for anyone still stuck with Dick's Operating System. DOS (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Ok, can a model larger than 8.3 be *viewed* in LEdit? I'm not talking about editing, but just viewing. Try opening a file you have named bigger than 8.3 in LEdit and see what happens. If it works, then lets just screw the 8.3 system. -Tim (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This is a good reason not to let 8.3 filenames cripple the namespace. --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) First, tacking on submodels in addition to the year: S8857-80.dat 8857 Motorcycles S8857-80-a.dat First model S8857-80-b.dat Second model S8857-80-c.dat Third model S8857-93.dat 8857 Street Chopper S8857-93-a.dat First model S8857-93-b.dat (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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