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(...) This is easy for Mklist.app 0.1 -- just launch the app, and select "Create Menu, Then Quit" from the File menu. (In 0.2, that should say "Create List, Then Quit" -- as the human factors department will hopefully not have had a martini with (...) (22 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Well, the DOS executable in the part update from ldraw.org won't work, but you should be able to use either the point-N-click version or the OSX command line executable that are included in the ldglite bundle. What's missing is some simple (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I don't know if mklist will work or not. (...) I can submit pages and then they get approved by the site admins. (I'm kinda site admin for the mac stuff--please don't boo and hiss at me for not doing much...!) (...) I can add links or make (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Very nice. What about running mklist so the new parts appear in the lookup? James wrote: (...) It'd be nice to make this information available on ldraw.org. However, I have no idea how to submit the documentation there. Is that written up (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) If someone wants to write up instructions, we can post this to the www.ldraw.org website under the Mac section. I would have done this but I have been too busy. I have never done a parts update either, so I don't know any more than any of (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) This is right. Combining this with Chris's observation regarding the -u switch, then here is the procedure (ready for the OS X install document), which I have tested on my own installation: - Assumption: ldraw folder is in ~/Library (the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I don't have access to a Mac, so I can't say anything with certainty, but I've used the Unix version of unzip (which I'm guessing is the one from Fink above, only compiled for a different *nix flavor). I would expect the above to extract the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) True -- it's also present in my 10.3.2 installation, too. Fink *also* installs unzip in /sw/bin. (...) That is quite an attitude! (...) That sounds more appropriate. The grain of salt for my previous suggestion was that I've been doing the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hmm, I don't think you need Fink to get unzip (I am running 10.2.8). %whereis unzip gives /usr/bin/unzip Thats some attitude that program has. I tried %unzip help and unzip replied, and I quote unzip: can't find help, help.zip or help.ZIP, so (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I've been using this method, too. The one thing I'd add is that these steps also need to be performed for the p/48 directory, or you risk deleting some or all of the 48-segment primitives. It's been years since I've had a copy of the 'pro' (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) True, but they won't appear in the part lookup list until you run mklist. So don't forget those part numbers or you'll never find them again. If I recall, the osx bundle should contain Tom's point-N-click mklist, and the standard command line (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Everyone should probably take what ever I say with a grain of salt, but I can't remember Stuffit Lite or Stuffit Expander ever asking where to put the uncompressed file. It just uncompresses the zip/sit file creating the new uncompressed file (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Hey, that's a good question. If anyone comes up with a verified method for adding a parts update an existing Ldraw folder on a mac, I'd like to incorporate it into this page. (URL) only covers a full parts install, and the section on mklist (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm not sure about specifics on the Mac, but I do know that the zip versions of the parts updates just get unzipped over the original files on a PC. When asked, I instruct Winzip to replace all duplicate files with the version from the zip, (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Is there a procedure for adding part updates to the parts library on a Mac? Has anyone figured out a way to automate it? I've noticed that the updates have folders within folders. Am I correct in guessing that I want to keep the contents of the old (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Following some months of work I have now blaced Mac Brick CAD 2.0b1 on my .Mac site: (URL) 2.0b1 is the renaming of the Cocoa version so as to avoid confusion with the Carbon / Classic versions. Two seperate installations are available: For existing (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I'm finally releasing LCX (Ken Dyke's little Cocoa editor). It is missing alot of features. I'm mainly releasing this so others can check it out. Nobody is working on the code. Well, I did add a text field for changing the ldraw folder location (and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Don, We're almost there. I'm on the road most of this week, so I'm getting in a little work on the bundle as conditions permit. I have a crudely hacked double-clickable mklist.app that I'll send to Chris to test out when I get back home (...) (23 years ago, 10-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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I received the following question from Joe Brandt and as my reply was returned by the mail administrator, I will answer it here. Joe made the following observation: (...) The answer is as follows, Your problem with part 43p01 is a bug in my (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I didn't think so, but I wanted to be sure because... (...) This'll take a while because I have to write (or find) some code to do it. The envinronment.plist contents are automagically tranformed into environment variables by the nice folks at (...) (23 years ago, 9-Sep-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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