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(...) [snip] (...) This is definitely something you need to do. I think that if you change the rather dull description "Ongoing maintenance and development" into "Release of new parts, programs and add on's" that item on voting procedures will catch (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) It would be super-cool if we had a cross-platform way to give some sort of "see-also" link from one FAQ question to another -- so that the links could be handled in a way most appropriate to their target platform... In an LDraw-oriented FAQ (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: New Freestyle Train Cars and Truck
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(...) Concerning the fenders on the Fritz-Homann delivery truck: I must acknowledge that I've seen these hinge pieces used for fenders by others. From memory, I recall Eric Brok and Bram Lambrecht (spelling?) uses the 1x5 stud 1 plate think hinges (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) I'm just curious, FMI (1): Why generate them on-the-fly when you only really need to generate them once after a change? What advantage does on-the-fly generation give us? Or when you say transparent caching, that means that the FAQ items are (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Old Lego colors
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(...) One thing that we need to remember was that in the late 50's and thru much of the 60's LEGO consisted mainly of TOWN sets . And in both Europe and USA/Canada (Samsonite) TOWN consisted of the Town Plan system. The (Samsonite) Town Plan set (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDRAW Models for K'NEX
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(...) Thought about it, never did it. Steve (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Scaling within LDAO HTMLGen tool
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(...) Set the Zoom/Scale to 50% on the main LDraw Add-On window before you go into the HTML function. Warning: current versions (2.0 or higher) of LDAO die badly in the HTML Generator. This will be fixed in the next version, which won't be in the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Why are people buying Starwars Lego off ebay?
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Oh, that I had the wealth of Larry Pieniazek, such that I could afford to buy LEGO sets to my heart's desire. Alas, I'm feeling impoverished after my successful bid at becoming LEGO SW complete, and having to buy plane tickets, and having to pay my (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Minifigs...
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(...) I just hope that whatever they do make, they make well. I was kind of disappointed by the Jar Jar minifig (the head being undecorated) but I *love* Jar Jar's torso -- it's so perfect for Castle peasants. Same with so many of the other new (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Txt2Dat, utility to convert text to LDraw
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I've created a small utility program (and supporting DAT files) to create LDraw displays from text messages. It's currently very limited; it only handles numbers, letters, and some whitespace. To check it out, go to my page at (URL) and follow the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Todd: (...) OK. On www.ldraw.org it will definitely be files (I need the processor to run X and other things). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: V-Wing Fighter
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Actually it's the same thing. Imperial Shuttle is just the generic term. Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) (26 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) "this" refers to using URLS to point to other FAQ items. "its" as in "its capability" refers to the essential capability to use URLs to point to other FAQ items. (...) I'm not sure about never ever (1) but it'd still be nice to point to other (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Trains at "Quarterly" Meeting?
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I'll be bringing a bunch of track, and a few switch/points, as well as a few engines and rolling stock. Others are welcome (and encouraged ;-) to bring their cars to run as well! In addition, I'm planning to bring a VHS video player, and show the (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.oak, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.con)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) No, because it's unlikely that the website will contain any files with the .html extension -- they'll definitely all be generated on-the-fly (dunno what the URLs will look like yet) with transparent caching of generated content. (...) Yup, (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Do we really need duplicates in the output, though? Physical location in the subdirectory structure can be worked around. Also, at this point, I'm inclined to scrap the Location header (1), since I can't see any real use for it. Cheers, - (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Jeremy, what are the antecedent of the words "this" and "its" in your sentence above? The general idea of referring via "see ..." to another question, or the "#xxx" anchors? I hope there never ever* is a need for any "#xxx" anchors in this (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FW: If only I could afford a ... webcam? / Re: Fishing for a tast y linkage/gearing/robotic building thread...
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Awesome, thanks. Keep us posted. (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Okay, I got it. From my end, I can guarantee that all FAQ items (1) have unique file names. This is the key thing, to be able to find a specific file by its name, in any subdirectory. So, to make a HREF to "#whatsitz" in file "flarn.en.html" (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Auction: 4564 and 4555 Train sets; Update 8
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I am sorry that I have not been updating the last week. I have been seek. The sets will advancing to Going2 on sunday 16. if there is now advancing in bids. ---...--- #1 4564 Freight Express (1994) Going1; 140 USD; Larry Pieniazek #2 4555 Container (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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