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Re: LDRAWPREDIRS LDRAWPOSTDIRS - additional search paths
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Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:58:00 GMT
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"Don Heyse" <dheyse@hotmail.spam.go.away.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Here's how I see it working:
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> 1. The admin creates an LDRAW directory on the server.
> 2. The admin creates extra parts directories under <LDRAWDIR> on the • server.
> 3. The admin creates an ldraw.ini file in the <LDRAWDIR> using the new
> GUI program and adds extra LDrawSearch paths for the extra dirs using
> the OS neutral <LDRAWDIR>\ExtraParts format.
> 4. The admin edits the NT login script \\PDC\netlogin\login.bat
> to set LDRAWDIR env variable. This will cause all NT users
> to find the ldraw.ini file on the server and use the extra dirs.
> 4.5. Depending on the installation, there may be a global script for
> UNIX clients that does the same thing.
> 4.75 For networked Mac users he creates the global pref file
> /Library/Preferences/org.ldraw.plist with LDRAWDIR and LDrawSearch
> settings in it.
> 5. The user logs on and runs MLCAD off of the server. It reads
> the LDRAWDIR environment variable and finds the <LDRAWDIR>/ldraw.ini • file
> with the extra part directories.
> 6. The user decides he wants to add the MegaBlok parts. He copies the
> <LDRAWDIR>ldraw.ini file to his HOME directory and adds a path for
> <HOME>/clones where he has stored the clone parts. Maybe he even adds
> the tags <PARTS> and <CLONES> to identify them better for some future
> version of LPUB.
> 7. He also adds the knex parts and labels the directory with the extra • tags
> <PARTS>, <KNEX>, and <SKIP> because he wants to search for knex parts
> before things in the <MODELDIR>, but only when he's enabled KNEX. • Most
> of the time he wants to ignore them.
> 8. Finally he adds the boxer parts and labels that directory <PARTS>, • <BOXES>,
> and <SKIP> for similar reasons. He can't put them in • %LDRAWDIR%\PARTS\B
> because that's set to read only by the admin. Hopefully a future • version
> of the boxer program will be able to find them in the new location. • Or
> maybe a future version of Windows will allow a user to create real • soft
> links instead of those useless shortcut links...
>
> I think this all works ok with the search strategy I listed earlier.
>
> Don
There is also some network software for NT and unix, which mounts a network
drive as a sub-directory (event under Windows). This could be a possible way
to do as well.
Michael
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| (...) There are all sorts of network mounting tools out there. I'm not sure, but perhaps you're thinking of samba. I've used that from the unix side to be both a client and a server for Windows networks. But there are plenty of other more obscure (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) Here's how I see it working: 1. The admin creates an LDRAW directory on the server. 2. The admin creates extra parts directories under <LDRAWDIR> on the server. 3. The admin creates an ldraw.ini file in the <LDRAWDIR> using the new GUI program (...) (20 years ago, 5-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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