| | Re: Hacked my first part -- 4349 Town Loudhailer
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(...) Man, I gotta be coming across as the world's biggest jerk. Sorry, Steve, I was wrong; LDAO wasn't changing line numbers on me. LEdit is the one changing the 5's to 4's. Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Ldraw.cgi (was: Re: More newbie questions)
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(...) I don't want to jump to conclusions here, since I'm less experienced at this than Todd, but I think this is what's happening: - User clicks the "DAT" link. This link points to a CGI script on LUGNET, named "ldraw.cgi", which is in charge of (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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(...) It *could* be changed. Sort of. Obviously, the new programs could be updated to recognize .ldr and retain .dat as a valid file extension. And LDraw and LEdit *could* be binary patched to REPLACE internal references to .dat with .ldr - so LDraw (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yah, I keep a directory \ldraw\archive\models\ handy for stuff I snarf. It actually goes a couple levels deeper: \ldraw\archive\model...)\(model)\ . Lately, though, I've been thinking of just MPD'ing everything to cut down on that last (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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Sure, I organize things by directory. And with the new file viewers/modeling programs that's no problem, as they can still find everything OK (mostly). The only problem is with LDraw and LEdit, which are "dumb" and need the models to be in a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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