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We agreed on having the ldr extension in the future. But there is one point which is not clear for me: Normaly there should be *.dat entries inside a mpd file. Will older software work if I change the extension inside the mpd files? I would like to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: General question on ldr and mpd files ... [DAT]
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(...) I'd hope any program would use the filename supplied. So if you had an mpd like this ... ===...=== 0 FILE a.ldr 0 Main File 0 Name: a.ldr 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 b.ldr 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 c.dat 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 d 0 FILE (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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Steve Bliss wrote... (...) MLCad, LDView, L3P/L3Lab fail to read you MPD: "d not found". I don't think any program applies the search for d, d.dat, d.mpd, d.ldr within the MPD, only in the file system... /Lars PS to Todd Lehman: if you click on the (...) (23 years ago, 11-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Interesting. I guess that's a valid way to process MPDs, I was expecting/hoping programs were a bit more flexible. With the current situation, you can take a group of functioning LDR files, convert them to MPD (using an MPD tool), and the MPD (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, actually LDView won't load the file whether or not it's in MPD format. Given that LDView isn't designed to work from the command line (although you CAN specify a filename on the command line), it doesn't contain any auto-extension (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yes, that's correct. Well, I haven't checked lately, hold on.... er, never mind. I'm wrong. My bad. LDraw and LEdit *will* add a '.dat' extension to a filename you specify on the command line, so the command: ldraw tt will cause ldraw to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad)
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