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Re: More newbie questions
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Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:23:39 GMT
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message
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> Tim Courtney wrote:
> > "Steve Bliss" <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
> > > The file-type isn't registered correctly. I don't know how to fix • this,
> > > but I wouldn't associate CGI with MLCAD.
> > Why not? AFAIK, that's the only way to do it, if you want it to be
> > automatic.
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> Some issues here:
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> 1. The automatic way of getting MLCad (or any DAT/MPD viewer) to launch
> when you download a DAT or MPD file is to register the correct mime type
> with MLCad. (1) LUGNET serves DAT content as mime type
> "application/x-ldraw", so you need to associate MLCAD.EXE with the mime • type
> "application/x-ldraw".
Alrighty.
> 2. Many CGI scripts serve files, which your browser could conceivably • save
> as "something.cgi". Would you like to load just *anything* with MLCad?
No, I wouldn't. But I haven't run across a case yet where I have.
> 3. "Save As", give a filename. It's a long and convoluted process, I
> know, but it actually helps you remember what downloads went where. ;-)
Which brings me to some ideas I was going to use to organize all the DAT
files I have, both mine and others'
When I put the whole LDraw shebang back on my PC (today sounds like a good
day!), I'm going to organize files to kill the pileup in the standard
models/ folder. A year or more ago, someone suggested a models/authors/
dir - which I have in place, and now I think I'll move everything to. Then
I'll go further than that and make subdirs for each creation, keeping dat
files out of the way of each other.
I wonder if anyone has done this before?
--
Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com
http://www.ldraw.org - Centralized LDraw Resources
http://www.zacktron.com - Zacktron Alliance
ICQ: 23951114
AIM: TimCourtne
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| Sure, I organize things by directory. And with the new file viewers/modeling programs that's no problem, as they can still find everything OK (mostly). The only problem is with LDraw and LEdit, which are "dumb" and need the models to be in a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yah, I keep a directory \ldraw\archive\models\ handy for stuff I snarf. It actually goes a couple levels deeper: \ldraw\archive\model...)\(model)\ . Lately, though, I've been thinking of just MPD'ing everything to cut down on that last (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Some issues here: 1. The automatic way of getting MLCad (or any DAT/MPD viewer) to launch when you download a DAT or MPD file is to register the correct mime type with MLCad. (1) LUGNET serves DAT content as mime type "application/x-ldraw", so (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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