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    Is there any benefit... —Dave Schuler
   I've noticed that a number of older DAT files could be steamlined (that is, rendered using far fewer lines) by application of box.dat and rect.dat primitives rather than a series of linetypes 2 and 4. Is there any merit in doing this, such as (...) (23 years ago, 23-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Is there any benefit... —Steve Bliss
   (...) The main advantage would be saving a few bytes of file space. Which is most significant to the download process, since we've got about 3MB of data, between ldraw.exe and complete.exe. The rendering time would be *mostly* unaffected. On the on (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Is there any benefit... —Leonardo Zide
   ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> To: <lugnet.cad.dev@lugnet.com> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:54 AM Subject: Re: Is there any benefit... (...) most (...) recursing (...) But (...) It's not worth the trouble: (...) (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
   
        Re: Is there any benefit... —Dave Schuler
   (...) Yeah, I wasn't thinking of a large-scale rewrite, but I was curious. (...) I'm not at all code-savvy, but I'd help where possible. Dave! (23 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 

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