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(...) I'm personally undecided on the issue of long filenames. On the one hand Willy is entirely correct that we probably shouldn't disallow them purely because of ldraw.exe/ledit.exe. On the other hand, Kevin's post that LPub/LSynth would both have (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) While I am a current member of the LSC, this hasn't been discussed there. It has always been my understanding that this format for meta commands was never intended to require existing meta commands (official or otherwise) to be changed. (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Tuesday mar 27 7866-1: Level Crossing with Electric Gates: 3034 oldgray 1 not 2 x466, 2 wires are 4'10" and 2 are 2'4" 7823-1: Container Loading Crane: 4275a has hollow studs (some verisons may have solid studs) 4081a blue and red should be 4081b (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) Very nice. Love the way it sits on the chassis. The round 1x1 plates give a 'spring' look to it. Also, the small touch of dark red on the side of the coach and the harnesses on the horses adds a rich flavor. (...) I think you did pretty well (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) As the author of the meta command section of the 1.0.0.0 spec, my intention wasn't to twist the arms of developers into adopting the "!" prefix or the program name requirement. For non-official LDraw.org programs, I meant for these rules to be (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) To elaborate: Suppose you have a part abcdefg.dat with loads of subparts (Too many to name with the 8.3 restriction). Just make a new subdirectory LDRAW/PARTS/S/abcdefg/ and put the numbered subparts in there (like (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Darn! In that case I'd suggest making a short filename preparer as a backwards compatibility measure. Perhaps it would bring all longfilename parts into an MPD (with shortened names) or something similar (eg. creates short name versions (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) That's an interesting approach, but I don't know if it'll work for the subpart files that started this thread. I think mklist only handles files in the PARTS directory. The subpart filenames would be embedded in the part files that use them, (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Hi all, My attempt at the Royal Coach of the House of Windsor (and a young Queen Elizabeth II). Tim PS. I'm never sure where to post these slightly historical MOCs. This one is still around and used today but given Queen (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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(...) Well I've just spent some time on another way. You can make a new version of mklist that works as follows: scan through the parts, if a filename is long then make a new copy of the file with a standardised short file name (possible assigned in (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Zellers BOGO sale March 31 to April 5
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This weeks Zellers flyer (Saturday March 31st to Thursday April 5th) has "LEGO Buy 1, Get 1 1/2 price. Assortment of LEGO* play sets *Second item must be of equal or lesser value". As well, this week only they have "10,000 HBC reward points at (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) That's great news, David. I'm glad that you are having success using the new CommExecuteFunction system call. I haven't had a chance to test it at all yet personally but I was very confident that it would just work seeing as how exposing it (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Yeah, but there's always another way. One that preserves the precious backwards compatibility. In this case you could make more subdirectories in the official library. Like the LDRAW/P/48 directory that was created to avoid name conflicts (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Willy, I agree completely on this point. That is why the LSC created the LDraw file format specification 1.0.0. I have never used LDraw myself, but I know that for some very influential people in the LDraw community this is an issue. I did not (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Hi Kevin, frankly I never understood how and why a program (I've never used BTW) can set a standard! I don't use Office progs from Redmond but I doubt that the file format for Word2007 has to be compatible with Word for DOS 5.5. Hang on! (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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(...) Looks like this set has around 123 unique pieces. There are a few lots that we will probably split like the 2x2 blue tile, 1x2 white tile, and 1x8 red tile. We will match and split the wedges too. (pair up the left and right wedges and then (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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(...) I am no longer on the LSC, but I'll give my opinion. Given that the LPUB, SYNTH and MLCad's ROTATION meta's were defined before there was ever an LSC, before the LDraw file format 1.0.0.0 was officially ratified, or before the discussion in (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: #6071 Forestmen's Crossing: pictures!
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(...) can being a highly subjective word ; ) God Bless, Nathan (URL) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Need LDD 2.0 Help from the Experts on Making Instructions
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(...) I think 10183 instructions were done by hand. I believe the system follows the order you add your pieces but it will not preserve step statements in LDraw files any more :( Tim (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Why is the search facility on the Factory Gallery so rubbish?
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This (URL) brickshelf gallery> mentions that the pullman cars are available on the Factory site. I tried searching by 'railway carriage', 'railway-carriage', 'railway', 'carriage' and by looking through all the trains models with no luck until on a (...) (19 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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