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Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:04:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Michael Lachmann wrote:

Also an automatic part-update would be possible, if we add a certain meta-
command to the parts which give it a version, so a program could look on the
internet for a list of part-versions, compare it with the loaded parts and
download newer or totaly new parts.

There is already a part-version comment in the L-CAD part files.  It's
the line in the header which says "Official LCad update".  This line
will have a release number on the end, such as "99-06".  If a file has
no "Official LCad update" line, the file is part of the original LDraw
distribution, and has not been updated since.

Steve



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  Re: Minimalist LDraw on floppy?
 
I think this is a great idea. I was thinking about a similar thing, where MLCad would load full updates from the internet, and install it onto the machine. However searching unknown parts on the internet is a very good idea too, but would require (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)

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