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Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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lugnet.cad
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Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:28:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Jim DeVona wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote:
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In lugnet.cad, Allen Smith wrote:
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LDraw Library Update 2008-01 is still posted only as a Windows executable.
Why is there not yet an universally-accessible zip file of its contents?
Allen
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Why do you need that? Under Linux I have tested this executable and it works
perfect (with wine).
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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 some text files as a Windows executable to run under
Wine or some other Windows compatibility system is hardly an optimal solution
for Mac or Linux users.
Allen, I suspect it’s just the case that those who prepared that release
weren’t very familiar with the growth of the LDraw system beyond Windows.
I’ll try to see if a zip version can be made available.
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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
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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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| | Re: Still no zip file for 2008-01?
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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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