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Subject: 
Re: MPD spec
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:21:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes:
Sproaticus wrote:

This is a very good question, and is even more important
with the migration to a single filename suffix (.LDR).

MPD files should not be named ".ldr" (or ".dat")!

I wasn't here for the .ldr extension discussions, so this may well have
already been covered, but why not ".ldr"?  It seems to me that any tool with
built-in support for the .ldr extension should also support the MPD format.
And the MPD format extensions are such that it isn't necessary to know in
advance whether the file you are reading is multi-part.

--Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@REMOVE.halibut.com)



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(...) Because we ought to differentiate between files that can be processed directly by LDraw, and those which have to be filtered through another tool (a MPD splitter) before LDraw can render them. If we decide to scrap LDraw compatibility, this is (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) MPD files should not be named ".ldr" (or ".dat")! Jacob (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev)

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