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Re: "~moved to" files and parts.lst
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:11:34 GMT
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On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:39:49 GMT, legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) wrote:
> Question for all,
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> I have noticed that many people have been using "~moved to" files in modeling
> lately. These files are there strictly as a backwards compatibility measure,
> and really should not be used in new modeling at all.
> James would often delete "~moved to" files from new updates. We have not done
> that yet, but it may conceivably be necessary at some future time that we do
> so.
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> I was thinking that it might be a good idea to have MKLIST.exe ignore all
> "~moved to" files by default. That would remove all those extraneous listings
> from LEdit's parts.lst file. Resulting (hopefully) in less usage of those
> parts in new models.
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> What do you think? Have MKLIST ingore them by default? With an optional
> switch to show them if users wish to?
I would be up for this. I could easily add an option to LDAO's Make List
to include/exclude ~moved parts. Or maybe an option to just
include/exclude everything which matches the [Parts to Ignore] list from
ldraw.ini.
> BTW, right now both Steve's LDAO Visual Element Catalog, and Anders LDraw Parts
> Search program ignore "~moved to" files.
More specifically, LDAO ignores any file in ldraw\parts\*.dat whose
descriptive name matches an entry under [Parts to Ignore]. This includes
anything starting with a tilde (~), underscore (_), or 'Delete'.
Steve
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