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Re: Is there a moved-to utility?
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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 06:03:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tore Eriksson writes:
But if there is no similar utility program already written, and if there is
a demand, I can make it look for the %LDRAWDIR% environment string or the
BaseDir key in LDraw.ini.

There's two programs I know of that do this:  MLCad and a Perl script I
wrote over three (!) years ago.  It wrote the changes back to the original
file, and all the little things (like the LDraw path) had to be hard-coded
into the script.  I think a C-Win32-ish command-line .exe would rock, though
I've been too lazy to write one myself.

I'm currently working on a Java inliner (1), it would be pretty easy to add
this functionality.  But since LDraw is pretty much a Windows-world app and
not everyone has Java installed, I think a .exe solution is very much needed.

Cheers,
- jsproat

1.  For my model instructions generator.  The inliner is about 90% done!  Yes!



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  Is there a moved-to utility?
 
While working with old model files like Datsville, I used to get countless moved-to-messages. I am pretty sure that ML-Cad prompts the user if he/she wants the program to change the references, but that could still be quite a time-consuming thing to (...) (22 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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