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Subject: 
Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:09:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Lars C. Hassing writes:
> Don Heyse wrote to Paul Gyugyi...
> > How about looking in the working directory first, then in the LDRAW
> > directory?  MLCAD also looks in the working directory for config type
> > files, but I really think the LDRAW directory is a more natural place
> > for this stuff.  Especially on Windows, which is typically a single user
> > system.  On a unix system I'd say search the current directory,
> > the HOME directory, the directory of the executable, followed by the
> > the LDRAW directory.
> 
> Please see http://home16.inet.tele.dk/hassing/l3p.html#searchpath

  1. Inside the document if it is an MPD
  2. The document's directory (the directory of the main model)
  3. %LDRAWDIR%\P
  4. %LDRAWDIR%\PARTS
  5. %LDRAWDIR%\MODELS

This search strategy seems reasonable for a DAT file, but I thought
this was more along the lines of a resource file where you would put
global defaults in a well known place like the %LDRAWDIR% directory.
Then for multiuser systems you could override the global defaults with
personal default settings in location like the users HOME directory
on a unix system.  This is a bit trickier for windows systems.  My
list above just went from what I considered to be the most personal
to the most global.  I guess the searchpath for DAT files goes from
most local to most global.  To me there's a subtle difference between
personal and local.

But maybe that's just me...

Don



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  Re: LDLite 2.2 Released
 
Don Heyse wrote to Paul Gyugyi... (...) Please see (URL) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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