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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:37:49 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, tim@zacktron.com (Tim Courtney) writes:
> At 05:45 PM 6/12/99 +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, tim@zacktron.com (Tim Courtney) writes:
> > > If they're related or not is beyond me, but someone could investigate the
> > > duplicates to look for similarities.
> >
> > Here's a thread on oddities -- sets which "break the rules":
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> > http://www.lugnet.com/news/fullthread.cgi?lugnet.admin.database:98
> >
> > > The duplicates are never in
> > > production at the same time, so they are a few years apart at the least.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Not always, unfortunately. Some notable counter-examples are:
>
> [...] Serious snippage
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> Todd,
> If you could come up with a complete list of irregulars, it would be
> helpful.
I posted the URL on another node of this thread, but here it is again for
convenience:
http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.database:266
It's a list of 238 duplicate set numbers.
> We can figure out how absolutely necessary or how not absolutely
> necessary a comprehensive file system is that way. If there is less than
> 35 or so of these so-called irregulatities, we can figure out a way to work
> around them while keeping our naming system under the 8.3 limitation.
> Realize that right now there is the 8.3 limitation for LEdit and LDraw.
> Though temporarily renaming is a temporary solution, people *will* get
> tired of it.
Bah.
Seriously, this is 1999, man. Tough beans for anyone still stuck with
Dick's Operating System. DOS users die a thousand painful deaths every day
already.
Seriously, other than the original modeler who creates a file, how often is
someone going to want to edit that DAT file? Why should anyone care how
much hassle it is to rename a file in order to edit it when the file isn't
supposed to be changing?
Seriously, how many people are stuck with only LDRAW.EXE to view DAT files?
Why should anyone care about a few ignorant sots out there who haven't yet
installed LDLITE to view DAT files?
--Todd
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