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Subject: 
MPD format
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Date: 
Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:53:03 GMT
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who is governing the specs on the MPD format???

i'm thinking of writing a quick little MPD merger/splitter VB app... (seems
whacky that we don't have one already)... and i just need to know the spec on
what MPD's entail...
all i can really see is the 0 FILE <filename> line...
if that's all there is then i can whip us up a merger/splitter to handle an
infinite number of .DAT files in no time...

J



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  Re: MPD format
 
That is all there is to it. "0 FILE name.dat" starts a subfile. The subfile ends when end-of-file or another "0 FILE name.dat" line is reached. By convention, tools like L3P and LDLite, when given an mpd file, will render the first subfile. The (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: MPD format
 
(...) Wouldn't it be enough to put a call to my MPD builder [1] on the menu in LDAO? Steve, will you do that in the next release of LDAO? Feel free to include the MPD builder in your distribution. Play well, Jacob [1] <URL:(URL) ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: MPD format
 
(...) Don't forget that in an MPD, anything before the first 0 FILE should be ignored (on the assumption it's notes from the author, and e-mail message, or something similar). Steve (25 years ago, 15-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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