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Re: Storage and Display of OMR Files
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:34:42 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney writes:
> [...]
> Good point.  But with the zip files we need adequate documentation telling
> the user what directories to create to unzip it to.  Because it needs to
> wind up in
> 
> sets/XXXXZ-YY/
> 
> to work the way we intend.

Nah, why go through all that work? -- just embed the directory name into the
zipfile.  I'm a bit rusty on pkzip (I use tar these days) but essentially:

   pkzip xxxxz-yy.zip sets\xxxxz-yy\*.*

which is analagous to

   tar -cvf xxxxz-yy.tar sets/xxxxz-yy
   gzip xxxxz-yy.tar


> [...]
> But will people add that?

No, they might not...so that's why it might be good to add it automatically
instead, presuming that they've agreed to place it under OPL.


> And also, is that too much to have on a header
> of each submodel?  Or would it be a comment in the mpd?  It looks good (and
> I can see it was pasted from the OPL site), but it would make the model
> files rather bulky.  I would say that it should go below the OMR header...

Probably doesn't really matter where it goes -- just so long as it appears
somewhere in each file, right?  Somewhere near the top is most traditional.
Under the other headers is probably fine?


> > > Well, would it be possible to consider links back to the OMR once it
> > > is up and running?
> > 
> > Oh, definitely...I think that would be very helpful to people.
> 
> I'll work on getting images ready for that once I get some other pages
> buttoned down.

(Images?)


> Another thing of much importance is the display of the model entries for
> download on the OMR download page.  I have thought of different methods and
> haven't come up with the best one yet.  We need to categorize it by theme
> and subtheme.  Is it overdoing it to make directories and pages for each
> theme and subtheme?  [...]

I don't it's overdoing it, but that's just me.  Heck, I'm planning for
there to be at least a couple hundred pages for subthemes on the LUGNET
when the sets DB is reshuffled around.  Initially there will only be
newsgroups in the lugnet.lego.* hierarchy for the "product programmes"
(i.e. DUPLO, PRIMO, LEGO SYSTEM, TECHNIC, etc.) and "systems" (i.e. Space,
Castle, Wild West, etc.), but there's always plenty of room for non-ng-based
"theme" sub-pages (i.e. Tech Play, Blacktron, Forestmen, DUPLO Zoo, etc.).
Someday might even be ng's for some of the themes, depending on interest.

--Todd



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(...) [...] (...) Nifty-poos. (...) Hmm... it could be more organized nixing the models.sets, but then again the discussion on each subgroup would be pretty minimal that a main group would be almost necessary to keep discussion going. We could of (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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