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Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 04:40:45 GMT
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At 01:19 PM 12/10/1999 , Steve Bliss wrote:
> There are at least three different concepts to be differentiated--
> "The Organization Formerly Known as L-CAD"
LDraw Group? LDraw Organization? LDraw Foundation?
> "the LDraw suite of tools that JJ developed (as maintained by TOFKALCAD)"
Hmmm, original software only, or original software including our updates?
LDraw? LDraw Suite? LDraw Package?
> "part files for use with LDraw-Compatible tools, and sanctioned by TOFKALCAD"
Official ldraw.org Parts Updates.
> "formated to be compatible with LDraw and LEdit, as extended"
LDraw Compatible Editor/Viewer/Utility.
> > both .mpd and .dat are poorly named extensions. .dat more so, but .mpd
> > is used by Microsoft Project. If future tools could recognise other
> > extensions that would be swell.
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> .DAT I have a problem with, because it is historically generic.
Yes. How bout these?
.ldr
.ldm (LDraw Model)
.lgo (stepping on toes there?)
> But as for
> .MPD, let's face it: LDraw is *way* more important than MS-P. ;)
Yeah, lets keep it .mpd.
> And file-extensions are inevitable. Out of roughly 50,000 possible TLX's,
> Microsoft has sucked up half. Or so my registry tells me.
DANG!
-Tim
http://www.zacktron.com
http://www.ldraw.org
AIM: timcourtne
ICQ: 23951114
If you don't believe in Gosh, you'll go to Heck, where you'll face eternal
darnation.
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) I think he was being sarcastic. Project is probably installed on 4000 times as many PCs as all the LDraw compatible tools put together. If you do anything that has to be planned, you can't live without Project and there really isn't a good (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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| (...) Is that an educated guess of a figure? ;) (...) Yeah... .mpl (Multi-Part LDraw) ? (...) Agreed. (...) That would be a good thing. The only argument I see against changing them is tradition, to which I say, 'poo.' -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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| (...) I'd prefer that the group and website both go by ldraw.org. When refering specifically to the people, it would be 'ldraw.org group'. For the webpages, it would be 'ldraw.org site'. (...) Which updates? The new mklist.exe? Fixed versions of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
| | | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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| (...) I would have to disagree here. I clearly see 'ldraw.org' as a website, since that's the name the website has been given. But the group of people is an organization, who uses the site as its central resource for LDraw materials. The (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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| Tim Courtney wrote: <Good questions. Which I snipped.> In my opinion: A name is needed to identify the concept of "formated to be compatible with LDraw and LEdit, as extended". This name needs to be separate from the concept of "the LDraw suite of (...) (24 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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