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(...) I'd guess the limitation is because James allocated a 1000-element array to hold the data lines. The problem I ran into when I tried a rewrite was I was using a shareware version of Basic, which wouldn't support the memory usage I needed, so I (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) I agree. (1) (...) You've done this before, haven't you? Man, what a headache. :-P This is why I don't write the install code at work. I have learned one thing: avoid avoid avoid InstallShield! How do you like the Wise install tool? Would it (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: DOS Makelist (was Re: Uber-install (was Re: Organizing the Site Revamp))
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(...) Why the limitation on 1000 parts? Have all the makelist implementations shelled out to call sort.exe? I'm sure there's a quicksort call in the ANSI C libraries, and stl has some great capabilities for those of the C++ persuasion... (...) Well, (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmm. Let's see: - Lets authors know a file has been altered after submission. - Helps people track down part number changes, especially if another part is now using the old number. - Reduces need to overload the Author tag to give proper (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Turning in LDAO editor (was: Re: [Unofficial Part] 3613 - Arm Piece with Towball Socket)
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Previously, John and I wrote stuff: (...) Yes, they could. (...) It's the "Erase and Redraw" command. It just redraws the current file. (...) It shouldn't be writing in that case -- in the Win/VB-world, click happens after you let up on the mouse (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Hmmm. "LDraw Purists Homepage", anyone? Steve (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Just to create some facts & data to work from, I created zip files containing various parts of the whole LDraw family. Here's what I got: Original LDraw and all parts: 2.1MB +DOS tools: 2.3MB +Win32 tools: 4.8MB (not including L3PAO & its (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) Umm, that would be really great if you did that. We never came up with a replacement for James' original makelist.exe (which can only handle 1000 parts). How big would a distributable of your Perl-makelist be? And how easy would it be for (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Steve Bliss (blisses@worldnet.att.net) wrote: [ about adding maintenance information to the parts files ] (...) I think it is a good idea. Information about which names the file has had in the past will be useful for updating old models, and the (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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[ Moving to lugnet.publish ] (...) Apache: <URL:(URL) (...) I can't remember the details, but basically you just create a catalog for the new server and add a few lines to one of the configuration files that informs Apache of the relation between (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.publish)
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