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Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update"
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 8 May 2001 16:28:05 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson writes:
> > 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.
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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.
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
3001.dat Brick: 2 x 4
or something similar? I realize that longer part descriptions might not
work with this format, but might this be a fair stop-gap measure? Even if
we used:
9999.dat Unofficial Brick 2 x 7
instead of:
9999.dat Unofficial Part: Brick 2 x 7
we would convey the necessary meaning and not take up too much space.
Just a few idle ramblings...
Dave!
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 | | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update"
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Test posting of "Unoffficial Update"
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 8-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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