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(...) Why do you need that? Under Linux I have tested this executable and it works perfect (with wine). cu mikeheide (16 years ago, 25-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) That's goofy. The content of the library update is a group of LDraw files, not a program. Zip is a common and perfectly reasonable format for distributing such files; it is natively supported on most operating systems I'm aware of. Packing (...) (16 years ago, 25-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Actually with the new license anyone can repackage it as a regular zip. I suspect most zip programs could open the executable zip anyway. But I agree that ldraw.org should make it available in a universal format. I'd guess it just slipped (...) (16 years ago, 26-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Note that most programs that can extract ZIP files should be able to extract the contents of the EXE file - self-extracting ZIPs are valid ZIP files themselves. ROSCO (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, I've done that in the past, but I didn't have any luck in this case. Stuffit Expander, the built-in OS X archive utility, and another zip program failed to unzip it successfully. The unzip utility reports the following: (...) (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Chardonnay? Zinfandel? Reisling? What wine do you drink while testing? Paul (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Not really a helpful message! If you have a question - then ask that question. There are approx. 95% and more Windows users for LDraw and the remaining 5% or less are Linux and Apple users. So which direction you would go to satisfy the (...) (16 years ago, 30-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) When satisfying both is trivial (like here) then you should satisfy both. Personally I would have preferred to dump the executable zip and just leave it as a regular zip. Tim (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Since some popular LDraw programs are available for the Mac these days - LDView, LPub, L3Lab, and of course Bricksmith - I think it's only reasonable to provide parts updates in a format readily accessible to Mac users. Happily, the (URL) (...) (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) LOL! I don't! Kevin (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) As announced (URL) here> the Windows distribution is no longer a self-extracting zip file, because we wanted to give new users a more friendly installation interface. As a side-benefit we were able to allow the optional installation of the (...) (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Chris, Many thanks to you and the rest of the people who keep this parts library going strong! Cheers, Kevin (16 years ago, 31-Dec-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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(...) Is there something special that needs to be done with the above zip file after extracting to get Bricksmith to recognize the parts in it? No parts appeared in the parts selector when I had the preferences set to look at the ldraw folder (...) (16 years ago, 1-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) That seems better than what I get. I had the loading parts window never go away, and when I exited and restarted Bricksmith, it just shows that window for a little bit and then crashes. This is what I see in the console log: 2009-01-01 (...) (16 years ago, 2-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) This is caused by the files: p/box3#8p.dat parts/s/swh2.dat parts/s/swh3.dat ...all of which are empty files in 2008-1. The next version of Bricksmith will not choke on such malformed files; in the meantime, don't use those files (...) (16 years ago, 7-Jan-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for pointing this out. I don't understand how those files got to become zero-length, but these will be restored in the next parts update (which is under development at present). Chris Dee (LDraw Parts Library Admin) (16 years ago, 27-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) On further investigation, it is now clear why I did this. All three files are obsolete and not used by any official parts and as primitives/subparts should not be directly referenced in models. Because this update was a complete library (...) (16 years ago, 27-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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(...) On further investigation, it is now clear why I did this. All three files are obsolete and not used by any official parts and as primitives/subparts should not be directly referenced in models. Because this update was a complete library (...) (16 years ago, 28-Apr-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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