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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Feature request
Date: 15 Apr 2001 10:16:20
Message: <3ad9ad34@news.povray.org>
Having vis studio installed all mdl files are listed as 'rose models', could
we have a setting in moray that gets it to keep the mdl file extension for
moray?


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From: Jamie Davison
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 15 Apr 2001 10:50:17
Message: <MPG.1543c4d248f7ae159898c8@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:46:17 +0100, Rick [Kitty5] wrote...
> Having vis studio installed all mdl files are listed as 'rose models', could
> we have a setting in moray that gets it to keep the mdl file extension for
> moray?

You can do it manually IIRC.

In any Directory window, select View->Folder Options->File Types.  And 
then select the .mdl file type, click edit, select the open option in the 
lower pane of the window, select edit again, and change the 'application 
used to perform the action' field to :

C:\PROGRA~1\MORAYF~1\MORAYWIN.EXE "%1"

Changing the path to the executable to whatever is appropriate on your 
system, of course.  You can also change the description of the file type 
in the initial edit window too.

Any help?

Oh, and this really should have gone in moray.win, which is where any 
followups will go :)

Bye for now,
     Jamie.


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From: Olivier Gagnon
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 15 Apr 2001 11:16:10
Message: <3ad9bb3a@news.povray.org>
Mine are registered as modules with modplug player :)



"Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com> wrote in message
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> Having vis studio installed all mdl files are listed as 'rose models',
could
> we have a setting in moray that gets it to keep the mdl file extension for
> moray?
>
>
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> Rick
>
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From: Ian Burgmyer
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 11 Jun 2001 13:52:02
Message: <3b250542$1@news.povray.org>
"Olivier Gagnon" <oli### [at] cgocableca> wrote in message
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> Mine are registered as modules with modplug player :)

Yeah, there is a MOD editor that uses MDL as an extension.

These programs will probably fight for the MDL extension:

-A Classic Quake model editor
-A MOD player/editor that supports MDL files
-Moray

I dunno, I think it's kinda funny ;-)

-Ian


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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 11 Jun 2001 21:21:00
Message: <3B256E08.E672834D@pacbell.net>
Ian Burgmyer wrote:
> 
> "Olivier Gagnon" <oli### [at] cgocableca> wrote in message
> news:3ad9bb3a@news.povray.org...
> > Mine are registered as modules with modplug player :)
> 
> Yeah, there is a MOD editor that uses MDL as an extension.
> 
> These programs will probably fight for the MDL extension:
> 
> -A Classic Quake model editor
> -A MOD player/editor that supports MDL files
> -Moray

There are two other programs that I know that use that extention. So much
for original thought...

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From: Ian Burgmyer
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 12 Jun 2001 00:15:56
Message: <3b25977c$1@news.povray.org>
"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3B256E08.E672834D@pacbell.net...
> There are two other programs that I know that use that extention. So much
> for original thought...

That's kinda funny...

Maybe an alternate extension for Moray could be made?  Maybe MRY, or MOR, or
something like that.  Of course, the old MDL extension could be loaded and
used, but the new extension would be prefered due to conflicts with the
old...

Just an idea :-)

-Ian


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 12 Jun 2001 04:45:33
Message: <3b25d6ad@news.povray.org>
> Maybe an alternate extension for Moray could be made?  Maybe MRY, or MOR,
or
> something like that.  Of course, the old MDL extension could be loaded and
> used, but the new extension would be prefered due to conflicts with the
> old...

good idea :)


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From: Björn Magnusson
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 29 Jun 2001 07:39:59
Message: <3B3C68E6.1835E677@home.se>
> Maybe an alternate extension for Moray could be made?  Maybe MRY, or MOR, or
> something like that.  Of course, the old MDL extension could be 

I know! As this program is made only for windows, why not use the
extension .Moray ?



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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 29 Jun 2001 10:41:37
Message: <3b3c93a1@news.povray.org>
> > Maybe an alternate extension for Moray could be made?  Maybe MRY, or
MOR, or
> > something like that.  Of course, the old MDL extension could be
>
> I know! As this program is made only for windows, why not use the
> extension .Moray ?

while you can have longer extensions in windows, there are problems with
more than 3 letters - happened to spatch....


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From: Ian Burgmyer
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: 30 Jun 2001 13:34:16
Message: <3b3e0d98$1@news.povray.org>

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> I know! As this program is made only for windows, why not use the
> extension .Moray ?

That would work if it weren't for the FAT file system.  You see, for Windows
to have the long filenames, they have to fake it.  What it does is have the
long filename (LFN) entry (i.e. "Program Files"), and have the real DOS name
for it right after (i.e. "PROGRA~1").  With extensions longer than three
letters, it has to fake it as well, because DOS only supports 8.3 names
(eight letter filenames, three letter extensions).  Some file compression
packages don't completely support long filenames (for instance, the DOS
version of PKZIP doesn't work well with Windows 2000) and won't create the
LFN entry in the ZIP file.  So, after you unzip it, the user is forced to
rename all the files back to the proper extension.

While on this topic, I think it's interesting to note that volume labels on
partitions are also FAT entries!  I think it's the first one on the disk.
They're limited to 11 letters, and are always capital (Windows will display
them with the first letter capitalized and the others lowercase if you
desire).  They are like DOS filenames.  Say you have the volume label
HARDDRIVE.  It would show up on the drive as HARDDRIV.E.  Just as if you had
the label VOLUMELABEL, it would be VOLUMELA.BEL.  Cool, huh?  ;-)  Volume
labels allow for spaces, though.  I don't know if they're a real space (char
32) or if they're converted into a NULL (char 0 or 255).

The above doesn't apply to NTFS partitions, because as far as I know, they
support long filenames right out of the package (with no special tricks),
and support long volume labels (my NTFS drive sports "Windows 2000", which
is 12 characters).

-Ian


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