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(...) To be more precise 'with the legal blessing of the Jessiman's and everyone who has ever contributed a part.' As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread one of the benefits is that someone could release a perfectly legal version of the library (...) (16 years ago, 9-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | TRU HP video game sale
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The only LEGO in this weeks TRU flyer (July 9th to July 22nd) is the Harry Potter Years 1-4 video game. on sale for $34.99, reg. $59.99 ea. Stay cool. Gail Meagher Halifax (16 years ago, 9-Jul-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | True Blood
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True Blood, s01e09, Plaisir d'amour. After Sookie identifies the vampire bartender Longshadow responsible for stealing from Fangtasia, Bill steps in to protect her. In doing so however, he breaks a vampire taboo : killing an other vampire. Even (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.loc.ca.qc, lugnet.org.ca.quelug, FTX)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 7947 Prison Tower Rescue
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(...) Thanks to some quick development by Ronald Vallenduuk, the LDraw version of this part was just released in update 2010-02. (URL) Chris Dee (LDraw Parts Library Admin) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.reviews, FTX)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 7947 Prison Tower Rescue
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have to add a quick comment here. i was playing around with the pieces of this set last night to look at alternate possibilities and remembered the new 2x2 facet pieces in this set (which i didn't mention in the review). they look like this: (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.reviews, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) Hmm... This is reminding me of deja vu. Did you email me about this, maybe five or six years ago? Okay, okay. I'll give it a try. But if it doesn't chase those pesky kids off of my lawn, I'm going right back to the full-screen obsolescence of (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) I'd agree, if that was the only benefit of the "discussion and hand-wringing", however the primary benefit of it was to get a library that could be freely distributed with the blessing of the Jessimans. (...) I don't see that it does. (...) (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) Ah Ha! I knew it! When I suggested you were probably "still running the original LEDIT program on some ancient 386 ... stashed in an attic somewhere", you only denied the 386 part. You *are* still running LEDIT in somebody's attic! So I know (...) (16 years ago, 8-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) I'm guilty of that blank-space-deletion in my own parts, I confess. I do most of my authoring in Excel, and sometimes it becomes helpful to sort by linetype. This has the effect of stripping out the blank lines or at least moving them around (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) I agree to some extent. But now it's there, like it or not. I have very little (if any?) use of it and yes it annoys me a little. The deleting of extra blank lines (used to group lines some way related to eachother) that makes the dat code a (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) HUGE thanks, guys!! i've been using ldraw since the beginning and it's always a little exciting to see what new parts are coming out. i've been wrestling with the lego digital designer software (not as an alternative to ldraw but because i (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) For me, the argument comes back to process vs. product, as was discussed in the previous thread. Additionally, it raises the question of whether LDraw is a tool for the end-users or a tool for the reviewers. The extended period of discussion (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) I'm intrigued - the only point in that last sentence that differentiates the "indecipherable gobbledygook" from the inline POV is that the latter "yields a greatly superior output image". It's certainly no less invisible to the end-user, nor (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Zellers sale on Toy Story
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Zellers has dropped the price on most of the Toy Story sets by about 25%. I was able to find deals on the 7592 - Construct a Buzz, 7789 - Lotso's dump truck and 7594 - Woody's Round up. Note: the 7595 Army men and 7593 Star command spaceship were (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 7947 Prison Tower Rescue
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Shondra Forsten is a woman not to be taken lightly. With the not-so-shocking news that her jerk of a step-father had no intention of paying her ransom, she decided to take her fate into her own hands. The first unsuspecting guard took the full force (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.reviews, FTX)
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| | BrickFair and Great Ball Contraption
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This year at BrickFair there will be a bigger and better Great Ball Contraption. Come be a part of the collaborative display that is always entertaining and fun to watch. For information and module specs visit Steve Hassenplug’s (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.events.brickfair, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Despite indications of a steady - if not increasing - rate of new file submission. The post-CA parts updates have shown a steady trend of reducing the backlog, bravo to Chris and the reviewers and the authors! (...) Thanks for the link. Could (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDConfig_Alt.ldr
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(...) I think you need to add some clouds to Datsville ;) Your light settings are very bright! I have just done some test renders that look decent. I agree that these colors may not be perfect for Pov-Ray rendering, because I'm not a rendering (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Yes, the total number of files on the Parts Tracker is now at it lowest since Sep 2007. The u* decision was ratified by the LSC on 5 Feb 2010 and a link to (URL) was posted to Latest News on the LDraw.org home page. Chris (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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In lugnet.announce, Chris Dee wrote: [snipped announcement of 2010-02 parts update] Nice! You *have* been cutting the backlog (based on the PT history graph), awesome! BTW, was there public info about the u* part numbering? I saw that u* parts were (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Thanks for your kind words. I guess I forgot that this update is the first to include files that exceed the 8.3 naming, and we needed a new version of mklist.exe. I'm not sure what happened to the version 1.6 beta annouced at (URL) contact Don (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) Another great update and a promise of a third in the making. Your hard work is much appreciated - more than you may realize from the number of replies you get here. I have announced the update on a couple of forums and people are axcited to (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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First of all: once again thanks to all who made this possible. Very impressive update! The thing is now that my mklist does not create a new parts.lst file. I can choose between Number of Description. It starts counting x parts found, but no new (...) (16 years ago, 6-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another Equatorial Sundial
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In one of those late-night "Aha!" moments I discovered the inside bow of a 1x5x4 half-arch brick can be divided almost exactly into 6 sections of one stud unit each. That makes a full circle of 24 equal sections – ideal for sundial construction! I'm (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.build, FTX) !
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) That's quite a massive update! Thank You All, part developers, reviewers, organizers, pushers, whatever-s! This is definitely appreciated. (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | July 9th - Toronto Legofest (or maybe just an rtlToronto dinner)
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GOOD NEWS This is a post to tell you about the Toronto Legofest happening in Toronto Ontario. You heard it here FIRST!!!! Where - Toronto, Ontario (aka Swiss Challet) When - 7 pm (aka - this Friday July 9th) as per Wiki: (URL) (plural fests) 1. (in (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | MLCad.ini 2010-02 Update Now Available
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Hi, I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2010-02. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator. Download the file from my website: (URL) w. (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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(...) ... links now fixed. Chris (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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Thanks for the hard work, Chris! (...) ...the links to the dat files in parts preview do not work... Philo (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | LDraw.org 2010-02 Parts Update Now Available
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The 2010-02 LDraw parts update has been now been released. This update includes 950 files in the core library, including 471 new parts, and many more files updated with improvements for Back Face Culling support. A further 10 parts have been (...) (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !!
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| | Re: Motors comparison page updated
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(...) Great to see, thank you. Benn (16 years ago, 5-Jul-10, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Theed Attack Diversion
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(URL) Click the pic for more... AC (16 years ago, 4-Jul-10, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | FS: SW & Other Technic Set Lot
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I have 13 Technic sets that I would like to sell in a lot: 4481 -- Hailfire Droid 7471 -- Mars Exploration Rover 8010 -- Darth Vader 8011 -- Jango Fett 8012 -- Super Battle Droid (x2) 8435 -- 4WD 8457 -- Power Puller (no VHS tape included) 8465 -- (...) (16 years ago, 4-Jul-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: LDConfig_Alt.ldr
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(...) Well, that depends on where you use it. In L3P, I think black is much better in your version, while lightgrey still looks white and green is maybe better but still way too bright. (URL) there any LDConfig optimized for L3P out there? Or is it (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDConfig_Alt.ldr
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(...) The LDConfig_Alt file has more realistic colors. To use it in MLCAD (version 3.3 or higher), you need to rename LDConfig.ldr to something like LDConfig_BlackEdges.ldr and rename LDConfig_Alt.ldr to LDConfig.ldr. MLCAD will read the file and (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Octan "Skywriter" pace car - 4th of July special
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(...) (from the writeup) (...) Not to quibble, but I think the yellow fuel pipes are OCTAN gonal, er, octagonal, rather than hexagonal as you said. Could be wrong of course. (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.pun, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) I know, I know. Fair call. I should have learnt years ago never to claim I'm taking my bat and ball and going home. That is lame. Please pretend I murfled both hissy fits. I find it much too difficult to resist attacks against my person and (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) Nowhere have you presented an argument that differ in any way from the "collective dogma," so I don't see why your argument should be treated any differently. (...) Don't tease. In your previous reply you said that you were done with the (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) --snip-- So pretty much you're saying you think that anyone who disagrees with you does so not from their own reasoned perspective but because of some collective dogma. Well now that we've cleared that up I'll know never to bother with you (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Octan "Skywriter" pace car - 4th of July special
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Hey Spacers! After MUCH procrastinating and several failed photo shoots I present my latest MOC: (URL) Enjoy! Dave S. (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) Speaking of ray-tracing then, I prusume... (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) Quick! Somebody bring up the separation of church and state! (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LEGO Architecture at the National Building Museum
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If you are in Washington, DC area this Summer. Opening This Weekend: LEGO Architecture at the National Building Museum Posted by Nevin Martell July 2, 2010 When you’re a kid, there are few better ways to spend an afternoon than playing with LEGO (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.md, FTX)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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<snip> And here I was... thinking the old LUGNET was gone forever. (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray) !
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) You've been parroting the company line in this thread and that previous one, so even though you're not literally affiliated with the LSC, you're playing the part of cheerleader here, so it's pretty much the same thing. Your position is not (...) (16 years ago, 3-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | LDConfig_Alt.ldr
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I have finally completed all of the custom edge colors for LDConfig_Alt.ldr: (URL) of the values of the colors have also been tweaked to (in my opinion) better match the color of the bricks. I would very much appreciate feedback on individual colors (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: L3P Warnings
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(...) Wow. You're totally confusing me with someone else. I've never been in the LSC, haven't been in the SteerCo for a couple of years, haven't had much at all to do with the LDraw header (other than a teensy bit to do with the licensing which, (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mercredi 30 juin 2010
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 7 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** LUGBULK de février 2010 ** par Erik "brickerik" (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jul-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | POV dat - 4592 - Hinge Control Stick Base - POV [DAT]
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0 Hinge Control Stick Base - POV 0 Name: 4592.dat 0 Author: Steve Bliss [sbliss] 0 Unofficial Part 0 // using DAT code from LDRAW_ORG Part UPDATE 2005-01 0 !LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see CAreadme.txt 0 // POV code by Orion (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jul-10, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Player names in set 3416
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Has anyone ever seen names for the female players in 3416 ? thx, Ray (16 years ago, 2-Jul-10, to lugnet.sports)
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