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Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:53:28 GMT
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If it wouldn't be much trouble, that would be nice. It would help us part
authors distinguish between the version released in the update and any version
we have floating around our hard-drive. I just had a situation where I
accidently unziped the parts voting file into my /parts directory instead of
the parts update. If they all had the same date stamp it would have been easy
to extract them.
Not a big deal, but if it's easy to do...
-John Van
Terry K wrote in message <37147609.10517285@lugnet.com>...
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 14:09:05 GMT, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) • wrote:
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> > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:05:26 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) wrote:
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> > > Wow. Lots of little things fixed. Big THANKS.
> >
> > You're welcome.
> >
> > Three things to be aware of in this release:
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> > 1. The VEC opens really slowly the first time you access it in any session
> > of LDAO. This is because ldraw\parts is being checked to make sure there
> > aren't any part-files newer than parts.lst. But there is an internal flag,
> > so after checking one time (in a single run of LDAO), it doesn't check
> > again.
> >
> > I hope in the next version, I will have a File | New Window option in the
> > VEC, so additional VEC windows can be opened more quickly.
> >
> > 2. The 0 CATEGORY keyword is still not being referenced because the simple
> > way to check it (read all part-files while loading the VEC) would take too
> > long. I should have this implemented in the *next* version, which should
> > be at least a .1 increment, instead of a .0.1 increment.
> >
> > 3. While there is a date-check on parts.lst vs. ldraw\parts\, there is not
> > a check of ldraw\parts\ vs. ldraw\vec\. So if your VEC images are
> > out-of-date, you will need to remember to MakeCatalog.
> >
> > Steve
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> OK. Umm, a question. Would it serve any useful purpose if I syncronized all
> the time/date stamps of the files in the updates?
>
> -- Terry K --
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| That is what I was thinking. I was looking for a good multi-file find and replace (got one) and came across a utility to set times and dates. I thought it might be useful in some way to be able to do that. Maybe set the time to reflect the update (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) OK. Umm, a question. Would it serve any useful purpose if I syncronized all the time/date stamps of the files in the updates? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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