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speak
30-05-2006, 11:12 PM
when i download mods from worldofwar.net, the filenames are always very "weirded up" :O

for instance, the newest decurisve beta filename is
1149001620Decursive-1.9.6.3.Archa.rar

?

just wondering why all the numbers are at teh beginning.

thanks :)

Wintrow
31-05-2006, 02:31 PM
That to catch the possiblity that one author uploads MyAddon.zip for his addon called MyGroovyAddon and another author uploading MyAddon.zip for his addon called MyAwesomeAddon.

Or when someone updates his mod from v1 to v2 and in both cases he uploaded it with MyAddon.zip.

By adding the 'random number' (don't know if it's random) every single uploaded file is unique. It would indeed be handy though if they could remove it again when someone downloads it...