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    Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Bram Lambrecht
   (...) What about the following, considering a set with instructions for one or more alternate models as well: sXXXX-YY.dat display file, XXXX is the set number, YY is the year, shows all models and alternate models, possibly with 0 CLEAR inbetween. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Ryan Dennett
     (...) for one or (...) models (...) (submodel) (...) (submodel) (...) component (...) official (...) the box) (...) making me (...) ZIP, you (...) Then you (...) components. (...) components (...) viewable as (...) opening (...) support (...) My (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
   (...) Bram, I think that's definitely on the right track! (At least with the double- and triple-letter combinations.) A great example of double-lettering is the 7171 Mos Espa Podrace™ set -- each of the three submodels of 7171 has itself three (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Ryan Dennett
     We MUST keep it in 8+3 format because SOME PEOPLE still do use LEdit, and if you don't have the files in 8+3 format you can't use the files. I think that the way something like the Mos Espa set should be done is like this(I don't have the set so (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
      (...) Why can't someone temporarily renamed a file to an 8.3 name while working on it in LEdit, but keep the names in a non-DOS format for storage and publishing? Or what if it were possible to use subdirectories? Then it could be 8.3 and not 8.3, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Tim Courtney
     (...) Not a bad idea, but tedious. (...) These two questions bring up a bigger question. What is this rumored LDraw II project and when will it be done?? I have asked this one many times and have gotten no answer. But some refer to it like the (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
      (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Tim Courtney
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Bram Lambrecht
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Bram Lambrecht
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
     (...) 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)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Bram Lambrecht
     (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Ryan Dennett
     (...) subdirs in (...) saving. (...) Win3.1 (...) So can't you just open the .dat file in notepad and delete that line?? Ryan (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
    
         Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Todd Lehman
     (...) It's not his .dat file that contains the space character -- it's an actual file on the disk. Bram was saying that he was using LEdit interactively and saved a file, giving the name explicitly but accidentally embedding a space character in the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Bram Lambrecht
     (...) Thanks! (...) Actually, the only set I can think of in which it would is 7171. Does any other set have that large a hierarchy of submodels? (...) I don't think a four digit year is really necessary until LEGO is more than 100 years old. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
   
        Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository —Tim Courtney
   (...) If the subdirectory system can be worked out accurately and duplicated on users' machines, then I am for it instead. It keeps the 8.3 system and allows more freedom and can cover the rare oddities. -Tim Courtney ldraw.org Project Coordinator (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
 

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