V4MD file-extionsions in Mac and Windows

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/19/05 6:28 PM, "Andrew Sinning" <andrew at learningware.com> wrote:

> In my testing, under windows, after having set the extension for the
> description file, when you use CreateDatabase,  OpenDatabase, or
> LoadDump, the extension is _implicit_, i.e. optional.
> CreateDatabase("file.vdb") has exactly the same effect as
> CreateDatabase("file").
> 
> Under MacOS, if the file you want to open has an extension, you MUST
> specify it in the OpenDatabase command, otherwise you will get an error
> (but not an error-string, until you fix it ;-)).  When you
> CreateDatabase, if you do not specify the extension, the description
> file will not have an extension, but the other files will.

Ok,

Actually rule is next:

* if you work on WIN or WIN+MAC then you must specify extensions.

* if you work on MAC only then you can drop extension for .vdb file.


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Ruslan Zasukhin
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