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Re: Another LDraw related question
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Date: 
Sun, 5 Sep 1999 15:43:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Bram Lambrecht writes:
"Greg Majewski" <citrusx__@yahoo.com> writes:
Hello,
I have read through as many tutorials and walkthroughs as I could
find, but I did not find an answer to this question: When I go into DOS
and >type c:\ldraw -y, the the screen shows numerous files being
uncompressed. When >all of that is done, the screen goes back to saying
c:\windows. No matter how >many times I do that, I can not get into the
LDraw directory. Can someone >please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thank
you,

You only have to run c:\ldraw -y once.  If you want to change to the
ldraw directory, just type

cd\ldraw

I think this is in my LDraw tutorial:
http://library.advanced.org/20551/ldraw.html
--Bram


Bram Lambrecht           / o   o \           BramL@juno.com
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Thank you for all of your help, I promise this is the last question.
When I type in "ldraw disco.dat" (the name of my model), I get nothing but a
blank white screen. Whenever I typed in ldraw car.dat and pyramid.dat, the
models were drawn fine. What am I doing wrong now? Once again, thank you, and
everyone else who has helped me with this.
~Greg



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Another LDraw related question
 
(...) Where's the disco.dat file located? It should be in c:\ldraw\models. Personally, I'd recommend installing LDraw Add-On (LDAO). (I'm biased, since I wrote LDAO). LDAO was written to make LDraw easier to use. When you launch LDAO, it shows you a (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: Another LDraw related question
 
(...) Probably not :-) As long as your doing your part to find answers, people here are happy to help as much as it takes. (...) Where (what folder) is your disco.dat file located? Ldraw looks in /ldraw, /ldraw/models, /ldraw/p, /ldraw/parts, and I (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Another LDraw related question
 
(...) and >type c:\ldraw -y, the the screen shows numerous files being uncompressed. When >all of that is done, the screen goes back to saying c:\windows. No matter how >many times I do that, I can not get into the LDraw directory. Can someone (...) (25 years ago, 5-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)

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