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One more for good measure :-) On all the pages, explicitly set the color of the visited link to something other than the background image. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Suggestions for JJM
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Here's just a couple of suggestions for the James Jessiman Memorial site, to raise some awareness: 1. Put it on the LEGO webring. 2. Be sure it is indexed on www.adequate.com's lego search engine. Basically, be sure it is promoted (in a positive (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | DAT voting page up
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Once again, sorry for the delay. :-( The first vote announced on lugnet.cad.dev: (URL) Terry K -- (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Noting gaps in parts sequences
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(...) Oh. OK, then the '0'..'9' would be '0'..'7'. (Any idea why 8 & 9 aren't defined? Did LEGO forget to include them or has no one gotten around to DAT-ifying them yet?) (...) These are handled, and mapped into spaces (plain 3005.dat) brick by: my (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Noting gaps in parts sequences
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(...) Garrgh! Monkey-florkin spelling checker always converts 'I' to 'I' and won't let me fix it! >%^( --Todd (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Noting gaps in parts sequences
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(...) '8' and '9' aren't currently defined. Also, don't forget to handle other undefined characters (maybe the above does this?) (...) Could {part number} and {author name} be turned into arguments, as well? Actually, if you have a generic app which (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [Parts] Anyone doing the Octan logo pattern?
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Is anyone working on a decorated element with the Octan logo (either the textual graphic Octan or the yin-yang symbol)? Has anyone done so? I'm experimenting with a technique of making higher-quality decorations for patterned elements. I using the (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Noting gaps in parts sequences [DAT]
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(...) Cool -- that's a neat and extremely low-effort way to get labels! Here's one way to write the program in Perl (also handling spaces and Æ=>AE): $ cat datstart #!/usr/local/bin/perl5 -w my %brick = ( ' ' => "3005", 'Æ' => "3005-AE", map {$_ => (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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(...) Yeah! Thanks, Paul. -John Van (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: [PARTS] - Header keyword line
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(...) I would include (some) synonyms in the KEYWORDS, but I'd also hope better (ie, lugnet-based) search systems would be able to do a certain amount of synonym-based searching. Frederick wrote: (...) I'd skip Support and Stand. Those are included (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Noting gaps in parts sequences
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(...) It hasn't been modeled yet because I wanted to get the other parts released without waiting for the oilcan. Then I got distracted. It will be a bit more challenging than the other tools, but now that I've got the LDAO Lathe, and have some (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO eating header comments
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I'll see what I can do to make Rename not mess with non-standard headers. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: LDAO eating header comments
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Thanks for reporting this. I'll get it taken care of. Steve (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | [NEWPART] - 2871 (?) Electric Train Motor Sides
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Hello all, I've started working on decorative bearing mockups you clip on the sides of the 9V Electric Train Motor. I believe the part number is 2871, does someone know it for certain ? I've put an entry in the Tracked Parts List also. (URL) M. (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | ReRe: [PARTS] - Header keyword line
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I asked: (...) Jacob Sparre Andersen answered: (...) ...... (...) What is your reason of excluding the "category -like" words Airport, Boat, Crane, Harbour, Train and Stadium ? I thought the keyword provision was to catch people looking for my part (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Digests
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Until now, the News-by-Mail gateway to the lugnet newsgroups has only supported instantaneous message delivery: one e-mail message sent to you for each article appearing in your newsgroups. I am pleased to announce that the gateway now supports (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | MAX2DAT .5 beta is ready for the world
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okay.. time for the first release.. anyone using 3DSMAX to model elements should be able to get some nice use out of this util... (URL) requires the use of a freeware ASCII export plugin which can also be found at the page... check it out... and, as (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Any hope for LDLite and MPD together?
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Yes, MPD will be available for LDLite on the March 31 release (v. 1.7). I've done some behind-the-scenes restructuring of how files get loaded and parsed in support of some other stuff, and the MPD support will happen easily. However, you will need (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD<->DAT conversion in Perl
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(...) Oh. OK, no, it doesn't. Is there a spec somewhere on what characters are legal? There regex there should be m/[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.~#]/ to include ~ and #, but any other characters would need to be scrutinized very carefully to look for shell (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: MPD<->DAT conversion in Perl
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(...) Are you sure this handles all the legal LDraw file names? I think both tildes (~) and hashed (#) are legal as well. Sorry if this comment is out of place, as I'm not too familiar with Perl. Other than that, your programs look useful. Fredrik (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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