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Re: How do I get these new applications working?
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lugnet.cad.dev.mac
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Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:26:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.mac, Erik L. Knopp wrote:
> > I do have the parts that came with the Bricksmith download. I placed the
> > folder in the /Library directory. I believe I have set both applications
> > to look at that location. After some further experimenting, I have now
> > found some files that appear to fully display in Bricksmith, but only a
> > couple of parts show, if any, in LDGLite. (Still have files that do not
> > display in either application.)
> >
> > I followed the instructions at the link you provided and downloaded the
> > .tar archive from ldraw.org and replaced the ldraw folder with that one.
> > Still having the results decribed above.
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> I don't have a Mac, but if your file system is case sensitive (like most Unix
> file systems are), then that might be the cause of the problem. LDraw files
> assume a case-insensitive file system, or an application that's smart enough to
> deal with it. (LDView on linux automatically searches for files of any case if
> it fails to find a file using standard case.) The fact that some parts show up
> makes it sound like it could be a filename case problem.
>
> --Travis
Yes, exactly. The LDraw file is case-insensitive so the onus is on the
programmer to provide for this on case sensitive OS's
-Orion
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| (...) Mac OS X is case-insensitive. It is possible to get a case-sensitive file system, but the user would have to know what they are doing and many things would break. I remember some old LDraw apps being written case senstive so that if it was one (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: How do I get these new applications working?
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| (...) I don't have a Mac, but if your file system is case sensitive (like most Unix file systems are), then that might be the cause of the problem. LDraw files assume a case-insensitive file system, or an application that's smart enough to deal with (...) (19 years ago, 27-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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