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Re: More newbie questions
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:52:09 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Rui Martins wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Sproaticus wrote:
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> > [...SNIP...]
> > Yah, I keep a directory \ldraw\archive\models\ handy for stuff I snarf. It
> > actually goes a couple levels deeper: \ldraw\archive\models\(author)\(model)\ .
> > Lately, though, I've been thinking of just MPD'ing everything to cut down on
> > that last directory level, treating an MPD as a virtual directory.
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> I think Not, MPD won't act as a virtual direcotry, since you can only use it to
> represent the model contained within it, not several, unless they all are part
> of a larger model, (same tree root) i.e. the first file included in the MPD.
That's not exactly true. The original MPD spec did not require that all
archived files be part of a single model. With the addition of path
information on the 0 FILE statement, it is possible to throw a bunch of
different files into an MPD.
Steve
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| (...) Yes, but how do you do to draw only one of those models of the bunch in the MPD ? I think you can't unless, you edit the first file (index) of the MPD. With this in mind, an MPD does NOT work as a virtual directory, but it can act as a place (...) (24 years ago, 22-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: More newbie questions
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| (...) I think Not, MPD won't act as a virtual direcotry, since you can only use it to represent the model contained within it, not several, unless they all are part of a larger model, (same tree root) i.e. the first file included in the MPD. See ya (...) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.cad)
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