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Subject:	Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:17:32 GMT
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"John VanZwieten" <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> writes: > Good thinking on this, but there is one problem not addressed: > duplicate set numbers. Wouldn't adding the year take care of this? Or you could take the pause/lugnet approach: s6938-1.dat s6938-2.dat etc.. submodels of this set could be: s6938-1a.dat s6938-1b.dat etc.. It just barely fits in the 8.3 format, but it would probably work for most sets. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com -------------------oooo-----(_)-----oooo------------------- WWW: http://www.chuh.org/Students/Bram-Lambrecht/ ----------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

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		Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
(...) Is the 8.3 requirement a legacy thing left over from LDraw & LEdit being DOS applications? What programs in LDraw lore -don't- work on longer filenames? --Todd (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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		Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
Good thinking on this, but there is one problem not addressed: duplicate set numbers. For this we will need at least one character to distinguish different sets with the same number. But this puts us over the 8+3 characters. The only character we (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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