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  Re: My truck
 
(...) Ooh! (As in Uh oh) I just realized -- but don't have a solution for yet -- LDraw .DAT files posted through the web interface are going to wrap at 79 columns. Hmm. --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: My truck
 
(...) What if WRAP=VIRTUAL were used in the TEXTAREA tag instead of WRAP=HARD when posting to lugnet.cad.dat? That oughta do it, except (a) now the paragraphs of text wouldn't wrap, and (b) it wouldn't work if the ng name were typed into the (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: My truck
 
(...) I like how this is handled in Deja News -- the user is presented with a choice to "send without preview" or "preview message". At the message preview page is another set of choices -- "send" and "return to editing". As for the line wraps, it's (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: My truck
 
(...) LDraw doesn't care if a command is on a single line or not. Except for comments (lines starting with a 0), which must be on a single line. Hopefully, authors are keeping their comments to a reasonable length. More problematic for (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: My truck
 
(...) Hmm, so you mean its parser ignores line breaks? Does it use sscanf or something along those lines? (...) nah, those get filtered out on-the-fly by the ldraw.cgi script. --Todd (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
 
  Re: My truck
 
(...) James wrote it in Pascal. So it uses read() and readln(). If I remember Pascal IO correctly, read() parses and returns the next bit of input that matches the variable types passed in. So if you pass it a number, it reads a number. I don't (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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