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| | | OK, you asked for it, and now you've got it. I've preposted an "Unofficial Update" page at: (URL) There are no links to this page yet, so it's not officially unofficially released. Anyway, take a look, tell me what you think. The good news: I (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | (...) 1.is it just me or are the links to most of the parts broken? (I was able to get at the parts by manually typing in the urls :) and 2.those black lines over the text, why are they there? (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | | "Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> wrote in message news:3AF78FB3.1AC84A....com.au... (...) to (...) Looks like there is a $pn variable in the page that isn't being replaced by the actual part number. (...) What black lines? I'm using IE5.5 on (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Netscape can't handle the danger stripes correctly as IE does. See (URL) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | | | | | "Tore Eriksson" <tore.eriksson@mbox3...wipnet.se> wrote in message news:3AF7C4C1.341BB7...pnet.se... (...) one with the warning background is being ignored so that the background of the parent table covers the whole thing. That's really messy, (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) And Im using ns 4.76 on windows ME and I get them. Must be a browser compatibility problem. (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yeah, can you say "Perl newbie"? Steve (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:n7sfftoqrpok3da...4ax.com... (...) Join the club ... uh, scratch that, I'm a Perl "nobie" (I've got MRTG running here, that was just a case of copying the Perl scripts into a dir and running (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) Nope, it's not just you. Bad me. (...) To keep you from reading the Secret Truth, why else? I'll get that fixed. I think I've got a copy of Netscape around here, somewhere. Steve (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) OK. I took care of these two very minor issues. ;) I won't vouch for the quality of any of the linked data, though! The first part I pulled down had a half-dozen lines with syntax errors. :O Remember, that URL is (URL) Steve (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:GD1Cwq.16D@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) first (...) Now I can see how much you end up having to do to sort out the release of parts - there are quite a few parts with reference subparts (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, there's a lot of little stuff. I'll check around about those primitives; it's likely I just missed including them. Steve (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | (...) I'll make it a little easier - here's the problems I've found so far: No s\ in subpart reference: 3070a.dat (references 3070new.dat) 3069a.dat (references 3069new.dat) 2431b.dat (references 2431new.dat) 6366b.dat (references 6636new.dat) (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | Thanks for the feedback, Dan. I'll see what I can do about straightening these parts out. Now, on to the next step: managing feedback and updates to files. :) Steve (...) (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:qk5lftsl7dvnao4...4ax.com... (...) OK, don't let us stop you. Must be a nightmare trying to get the automatic parts release system written. Dan (24 years ago, 10-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | Just noticed that my Darth Maul head doesn't have Unofficial in the name - is that my fault for not putting it there, or have you been adding this to the files yourself? Dan (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) It's because I had run VB program against all the files to add 'Unofficial' to the titles, but that was before I got the Darth Maul head. I need to either drop the 'Unofficial', or rework the posting process to keep a clean copy of the files (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:92sfftk3sqrfi3d...4ax.com... (...) name - (...) to (...) 'Unofficial' to (...) I thought it might be something like that. (...) keep a (...) The Unofficial is going to make it hard to find (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) It was a direct suggestion to mark the parts all as unofficial, to make it easier to remove them later (after another official release). (...) That falls under the category of 'no review of the parts before release'. Those parts already had (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | | "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:dm3gftcj64fh7m1...4ax.com... (...) Those (...) OK, that's great. I thought I'd bring it up just in case there was a problem with code somewhere. At least this update will make it very (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Tore Eriksson
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| | | | | | I like my @-sign better. It only takes one character, and it puts them first in the parts list (if sorted by description, of course). I recall that someone used another character, but which one is not important. Just my 50-öring. /Tore (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Hmmm. Maybe you're right, for the short term. But putting Unofficial on the front of the name makes it clear for everyone. Most people wouldn't know what the @-sign means. Long-term, I want to use this 'unofficial release' page as (at least) a (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | (...) I'm jumping in late here, so I may have missed a vital point, but wouldn't a blank space at the beginning of the part description force-sort the part to the beginning of parts.lst? I mean, could we have: 9999.dat Unofficial Part: Brick 2 x 7 (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Maybe. I guess I'd rather not depend on programs treating the title line as fixed-format, instead of delimited. My code tends to strip extra whitespace around the 0 and the title. (...) We are already using the first format. Unless someone (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Daniel Crichton
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| | | | | One of the files in the update may have problems with LDraw - it's got a 9.3 filename instead of 8.3. The file is 3068pmaw2.dat (Tile 2 x 2, with Star Wars Mawhonic's Pod Racer pat). Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone was going to use it and (...) (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Chuck Sommerville
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| | | | | (...) I just want to say Thanks Steve! for doing this. Maybe all the links don't work, but at least you can download all the parts in the zip file at the bottom. -Chuck (24 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | Re: Unofficial parts at (URL) FYI, there are a few more new files out there. I'm not going to continue announcing updates; they should continue to occur on an ongoing basis, nearly daily. I'm going to modify the format of the page a bit, to include (...) (24 years ago, 9-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | | | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update" —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | I just noticed #30414 (Brick 1x4 with studs on side) is named "_3010-8.dat" in this unofficial update. Clearly the partnumber is 30414. Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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