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Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
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lugnet.publish
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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?
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> 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.
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> [...]
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> 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)
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| (...) 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 (...) (28 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Publishing DAT files (was Re: B-Wing DAT file)
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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, (...) (28 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.publish)
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