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Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 19:19:06 GMT
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[snipped other ng's from reply, although it was a toss-up between lcd and lcdol]
In lugnet.cad.dev, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Tim Courtney wrote:
> <Good questions. Which I snipped.>
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> In my opinion:
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> A name is needed to identify the concept of "formated to be compatible
> with LDraw and LEdit, as extended". This name needs to be separate from
> the concept of "the LDraw suite of tools that JJ developed". Only one
> can be LDraw, the other needs to be a different name. Which one? That's
> what this debate is about.
There are at least three different concepts to be differentiated--
"The Organization Formerly Known as L-CAD"
"the LDraw suite of tools that JJ developed (as maintained by TOFKALCAD)"
"part files for use with LDraw-Compatible tools, and sanctioned by TOFKALCAD"
"formated to be compatible with LDraw and LEdit, as extended"
> both .mpd and .dat are poorly named extensions. .dat more so, but .mpd
> is used by Microsoft Project. If future tools could recognise other
> extensions that would be swell.
.DAT I have a problem with, because it is historically generic. But as for
.MPD, let's face it: LDraw is *way* more important than MS-P. ;)
And file-extensions are inevitable. Out of roughly 50,000 possible TLX's,
Microsoft has sucked up half. Or so my registry tells me.
Steve
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| Tim Courtney wrote: <Good questions. Which I snipped.> In my opinion: A name is needed to identify the concept of "formated to be compatible with LDraw and LEdit, as extended". This name needs to be separate from the concept of "the LDraw suite of (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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