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to: Johannes Beekhuizen
from: Stephen Walsh
date: 2007-06-07 18:20:36
subject: MBSE on FreeBSD

Hello Johannes.

05 Jun 07 15:17, you wrote to me:

 SW>> Sh*t! I have a lot of files to import! Can I edit the
 SW>> files.bs by hand and have mbse see the new description?

 JB> Yes. Copy the files to a temporary directory, edit the files.bbs and
 JB> import them with mbfile into the correct area.

More work to get the system how I want it {at}-(

 SW>> Btw: any change of an option to use long file names for the
 SW>> files, instead of the DOS 8.3 way of thinking? A lot of my
 SW>> files are longer than 8.3 (ie: Linux/Amiga files).

 JB> I vote in favour!

It would make the file listing so much cleaner!

thisisa~.txt
thisisalongfilename.txt

I know the one that looks better {at}-)





Stephen

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