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Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 20:13:49 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Paul Gyugyi writes:
> In LDLite on MS Windows, the .dat files are searched for
> for by trying to do an "OpenFile" in several directories.
> It would be very easy to replace the "OpenFile" with a
> call that gets a file via ftp or html. I dreamed of adding
> an attempt to get a file from www.ldraw.org to the end of
> the search path. That way you wouldn't even need to install
> the LDRAW distribution on a machine, just have a big web cache.
> The inventive of you out there could imagine a .cgi script that
> sythesized bricks, for example a server that just returned
> bounding boxes for each brick.
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> It would be nice if someone did this.
Wouldn't this be really really slow while before the web cache fills
up?
I suppose you could test the speed without a rewrite by samba sharing
an LDRAW directory across the internet and then setting your ldrawdir
path to something like \\www.ldraw.org\ldrawparts.
Don
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| (...) Samba use NT which is probably not the best schems to use. Unix style NFS probably- bu thier are security isssues. The way I was thinking was liek the inlining in VRML- which I think is htttp Alex. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| In LDLite on MS Windows, the .dat files are searched for for by trying to do an "OpenFile" in several directories. It would be very easy to replace the "OpenFile" with a call that gets a file via ftp or html. I dreamed of adding an attempt to get a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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