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| | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | (...) Faster? I wait patiently. My machine is old, 486-66 DX2. Thank you Dr. Gyugi. Now, is that pronounced, L-Delight? (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Robert M. Dye
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| | | | | | (...) But...no Mac version....sss...sss...SOB! Please....please? 80 Rob (26 years ago, 1-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) I'm no programmer, but Paul has released the source, so it might be possible for someone to write one for the Mac. Considering the fact that Paul is working on 4 separate versions for Intel and/or MS platform machines, though, it may be (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | (...) BTW, I modified LDAO so Make Catalog now works correctly with both LDraw and LDLite. It still processes the files in batches of 100, but that's not a *big* thrashing problem. I also made some other tweaky adjustments, so the DOS stuff is (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) This looks nice. What's the status of the Linux version? Any progress beyond the planning stage? (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | (...) Mmmm..... more cool stuff for me to play with on my linux box at work. Heck, if I end up figuring enough stuff out, as cheap as processors are getting I might just put together a super cheap box at home to run it dedicated. Spec'ed out a 300a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | [followup set to lugnet.off-topic.fun] (...) What I do at home is run Win95 on my box with a nice graphics card/monitor, and then use X-win32 ((URL) to run my Linux programs on the Win95 box's display. (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Sweet! I had thought of doing something like this but wasn't sure if it would be feasible. Now if I understand correctly when you run something like X-win32 the machine doing most of the work is the Linux box, right? The PC is mainly just (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, the real work is done on the Linux box; the Win95 machine just does the display. It works tolerably over fast WAN connections, although you're probably not going to want to do it that way regularly. (...) Yeah, it's expensive, but I've (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | (...) Yeah, I hear you. To be honest I'm not sure what I would run at home over ISDN that I couldn't just run in Win98 anyway. I think I'll do it more at work and then if I make another box for home, do more then. (...) Nah, I don't like to mess (...) (26 years ago, 3-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | pico/columns —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | (...) I don't know if this helps much, but I had to figure that out once for pico inside of pine, and there it's called: composer-wrap-column so you'd might try setting that to 72 somewhere (dunno where). (...) I like pico for quick text edits and (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: pico/columns —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) I kept telling myself that too, until I found out that vim can be rebuilt to allow perl as an in-editor scripting language. (or python or tcl...) Hate lisp, love perl. If only buying a house would be this easy. Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | X for Win95, etc. (was Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | (...) I generally feel that way too, but this isn't really shareware; it's a free demo version of a commercial product. Which, ethically speaking, seems miles away -- you're licensed to use the free (but slightly crippled) version as long as you (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Email Editors —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Sounds cool. How does it compare to Emacs in powerfulness? (I've never used either, but demos I've seen of Emacs underwhelmed me from the complexities of Ctrl-this Ctrl-that.) I like both pico and vi but it would be great to have something (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | | | | | | (...) It is my opinion that nothing can possibly compare to Emacs in powerfulness. True, Emacs has a very steep learning curve, especially for novice users. But when you've properly learnt to use Emacs, you're never gonna switch to anything else. If (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Ron Kittle
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Emacs is really just a lisp interpreter masquerading as an editor. :-) When I used to use unix with only a 24x80 ascii terminal, emacs was irreplaceable. With the advent of windowed interfaces, it doesn't have quite as big an advantage. Emacs (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | (...) (URL) - Sproat (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | | | | | On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:35:53 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote: <snipped everything> Just commenting on the name. Sproaticus? Hope there isn't anything Freudian in that. :-) -- Terry K -- -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Jeremy Sproat
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) My wife hopes there isn't, also. ...Wasn't if Fraud^H^H^H^H^HFreud whose mother called him "my golden Ziggy"? Cheers, - Sproat (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) Hmm, I don't think I want to find out the answer to that. :) But I think Sproaticus is pretty cool! --Todd ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Sproaticus
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) I like it, but it's giving me urges to put an enormous cleft into my chin... Posting this from the Web interface, Todd. Pretty nice! Cheers, - Sproat ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Tom McDonald
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| | | | | | | | | | | | (...) LOL How about glueing a big red paint brush to the top of a helmet? (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | The Virtues of Emacs (was Re: Email Editors) —Tim Rueger
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) My favorite Emacs widget is getris. That's right - play Tetris inside an Emacs window. I think that Jamie Zawinski wrote a Mandelbrot graphics generator for Emacs when colored text came along. But I disagree about Emacs not having as great an (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | | | | (...) It's not nearly as powerful as emacs -- it doesn't have any scripting capabilities (that I am aware of, at least). If I didn't already know the wordstare commands, I probably wouldn't use it. When I first started getting into Linux/Unix, I (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | | | (...) Sproaticus? Wasn't he the famous gladiator who led the slave revolt in Italy around 70-something BC? Played by Kirk Cameron in a movie version, I believe? (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Email Editors —Terry Keller
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| | | | | | | | (...) :-) Kirk Cameron? ROFL! Or maybe I should rolf. Close. He was a lowly block construction worker risen to greatness leading the revolt against HMSDS (Her Majesty's Secret Death Squad) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: X for Win95, etc. (was Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed) —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) Hrmmmm, given that I might just take a look at it, although I suppose I could just as easily bring Exceed home from work and use it. Maybe I'll try both. (...) I tried it out and couldn't get it working. Oh well, I'll just try a full-fledged (...) (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | Re: X for Win95, etc. (was Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) No problem. There's lots of stuff I don't know, so I might as well share what I do! (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Ldlite 1.0 delayed —Paul Gyugyi
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| | | | Strangely enough, Ldlite started as a cross-platform LDRAW. But with the help of a few others, I've been amazed at how fast it runs on Windows. It's become clear that a Windows version adds a lot of value to the majority of people, so I've sort of (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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