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Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 06:06:34 GMT
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At 11:26 PM 12/11/1999 , Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> Tim Courtney wrote:
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> > > But as for
> > > .MPD, let's face it: LDraw is *way* more important than MS-P. ;)
> >
> > Yeah, lets keep it .mpd.
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> I think he was being sarcastic. Project is probably installed on 4000
> times as many PCs as all the LDraw compatible tools put together.
Is that an educated guess of a figure? ;)
> If you
> do anything that has to be planned, you can't live without Project and
> there really isn't a good alternative to it. Trust me.
Yeah... .mpl (Multi-Part LDraw) ?
> >
> > > And file-extensions are inevitable. Out of roughly 50,000 possible TLX's,
> > > Microsoft has sucked up half. Or so my registry tells me.
> >
> > DANG!
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> Ya, they're hogs and if we check to find another extension, they'll
> never bother to check to see if it is used before they may grab IT. But
> still, I think we should consider change, if we change one, we should
> change them all.
Agreed.
> However there is a good argument to be made against changing them. I
> just want to see it hashed out.
That would be a good thing. The only argument I see against changing them
is tradition, to which I say, 'poo.'
-Tim
http://www.zacktron.com
http://www.ldraw.org
AIM: timcourtne
ICQ: 23951114
If you don't believe in Gosh, you'll go to Heck, where you'll face eternal
darnation.
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 | | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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| (...) It's a SWAG. Probably exaggerated by one order of magnitude, on reflection... Fairly educated, though. Let's work the LDraw side... how many LDrawers do you think we have? I'll let you make that guess, you'd know better than I, but I'd be (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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| At 12:18 AM 12/12/1999 , Larry Pieniazek wrote: [...] Snippety-poo (...) Ok... I'd take a shot that there are maybe 1000-1500 LDraw users. There are a lot of hits to ldraw.org, average of about 70 pages/hr from a couple weeks ago. I don't have up to (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| (...) LDraw Group? LDraw Organization? LDraw Foundation? (...) Hmmm, original software only, or original software including our updates? LDraw? LDraw Suite? LDraw Package? (...) Official ldraw.org Parts Updates. (...) LDraw Compatible (...) (25 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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