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Re: MPD spec
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:28:20 GMT
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Rui:
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> > > There is a very good reason that I didn't define the MPD
> > > format as you suggest. Some times you want to have non LDraw
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> s/want to have/can't avoid having/
Nice regular expression !
> > > data before the DAT files, and by insisting on a FILE
> > > meta-command for each DAT file that is easily handled.
> >
> > I think this is NOT a good excuse for that, because it either is an MPD
> > file or it's NOT, No garbage at the beginning should be allowed.
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> The MPD format has been designed for easy handling through
> NNTP and SMTP, which means that I have to accept standard
> mail and news headers before the actual content.
There is NO problem with that, because, every mail/news reader supports
the [uuencode] format and most support the [MIME] format.
Maybe you just want to convert directly from a mail dump ?
But that can easilly be done by copy/paste, except for batch processing.
but you also run into problems, when something is added to the mail after
the MPD file dump.
Maybe this could be re-thinked also !
> I don't intent to change the MPD format.
I knew that changing things is always difficult, there is always a lot of
inercia. I'm like that too, but if it's for the better, than I'll do it.
But No problem, this is NOT final, if I or others can change the way you
think about it.
No pune intended, but
"Are you the MPD format owner ?"
or is this a definition discussed and defined by the Ldraw community ?
As I said no pune intended.
> > Also because if you want to put something at the begining of the MPD, you
> > can by using the LDRAW comment command:
> >
> > 0 some comment/stuff you want to insert
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> Try to change the SMTP and NNTP RFC's first.
I got the ideia, above, don't need to say that again !
See ya.
Rui Martins
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| Rui: (...) I do use it for "batch processing". (...) That's while I added the "NOFILE" meta-command at some point. I think it was Jeremy who made me aware of the need for that. (...) I think you could say so. I wrote the definition and the first (...) (27 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| Rui: (...) ^^^...^^^ s/want to have/can't avoid having/ (...) The MPD format has been designed for easy handling through NNTP and SMTP, which means that I have to accept standard mail and news headers before the actual content. I don't intent to (...) (27 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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