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Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
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Date: 
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 19:04:10 GMT
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sarah@eskimo.com (Perhaps a Princess....) writes:

They are useful ONLY for people who have the ability to view them. For
the rest of us, they are as non-useful as binaries in a textual group.
What is the population of LDraw vs non-LDraw users?

The one .DAT that was posted was a LONG, meaningless numbers post to
me. The discussion on top was fine, sure. But what happens when
someone replies, and includes ALL the information (including the
meaningless data) and then comments are interspersed? And if they have
footnotes, then you have to page down through the .DAT to see the
footnotes... All in alll, I'd REALLY prefer that these go in their own
group. You can post one and then refer to it by Message-ID number when
making comments -- you can post it once and then refer back as many
times as you need. AND, it would make it easier to archive these
babies if they are in a central location.

[...]

No. It would still be annoying because it is meaningless unless you
have the LCAD program to view it. What you would end up with is a
paragraph or two referring to something that you can not see. And then
a page or so of gibberish.

How about if there were a group  lugnet.cad.dat  and it required that the
Followup-To field be set (to something else, usually lugnet.cad)?

--Todd



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  Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
 
(...) lugnet.cad.dat sounds BEST to me. I can simply not subscribe then :) WHile staying subscribed to lugnet.cad since I DO want to learn how to use L-CAD Sarah Heacock sarah@eskimo.com (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
  Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
 
(...) I think this is good. I am poised to publish a Dat as soon as I here from Moz about a rendering he is putting on his site for me. This was my plan: In Lugnet.robotics and Lugnet.build, I was going to post a commentary on the model and a link (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)

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(...) They are useful ONLY for people who have the ability to view them. For the rest of us, they are as non-useful as binaries in a textual group. What is the population of LDraw vs non-LDraw users? The one .DAT that was posted was a LONG, (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)

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