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Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
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Date: 
Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:33:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse wrote:


  1.  Everything to the end of line except trailing whitespace.
  2.  Accept filenames with surrounding quotes (and whitespace inside).
  3.  Both 1 and 2 are acceptable.
  4.  Same as 3, but prefer 1.
  5.  Same as 3, but prefer 2.
  6.  8.3 filenames only.  Curses upon you if you do anything else.

How about it?  Enjoy,

There are other possibilities too, for example:

7. You can exceed 8.3 but don't embed spaces or other sorts of whitespace
8. Limit filenames to only the character set legal for BrickShelf folders

Not meant to be exhaustive, just to get thinking going.



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  Re: Trouble creating building instructions using lpub and mpd file
 
(...) Well, technically ldlite has been around since well before MLCad, and it supports the double quotes, but MLCad is more widely used. So I guess you could make that argument either way. (...) I only asked for a recommendation, not a requirement. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.mlcad)

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