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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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Mon, 14 Jun 1999 01:37:21 GMT
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lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> Yeh, I agree -- there's a very good chance of that.  It's typical for
> most code that reads files to "just work" with subdirectories even if it
> wasn't written with them in mind.

I'm fairly certain that LDraw and LEdit weren't written with subdirs in
mind... LEdit doesn't even check if a filename is valid before saving.
(I once accidentally put a space in a filename in LEdit on my Win3.1
machine, and now I can't seem to delete it :-\ )

> ...And that's usually only an issue in low-level
> languages like C, anyway.  (James wrote LEdit in Turbo Pascal, right?

I think so.
--Bram


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  Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
 
(...) subdirs in (...) saving. (...) Win3.1 (...) So can't you just open the .dat file in notepad and delete that line?? Ryan (27 years ago, 14-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 -- (...) (27 years ago, 13-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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