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Re: New LDAO - Temp Location
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:20:14 GMT
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Ooh, I like it! Would you do a separate date for the voting files?
-John Van
Terry K wrote in message <371537a8.6603130@lugnet.com>...
> 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 number, and the date for the date of
> release.
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> -- Terry K --
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> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:53:28 GMT, "John VanZwieten"
> <john_vanzwieten@email.msn.com> wrote:
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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:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:05:26 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Wow. Lots of little things fixed. Big THANKS.
> > > >
> > > > You're welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Three things to be aware of in this release:
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > 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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| I could give it a shot. Why not. Don't shoot me if I don't remember to do it. :-) But I will add it to the checklist. -- Terry K -- Guess I better actually _look_ at the date touching utility now. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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