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Re: What is 'LDraw?'
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Tue, 14 Dec 1999 17:19:23 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney wrote:
> 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"
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> LDraw Group? LDraw Organization? LDraw Foundation?
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'.
> > "the LDraw suite of tools that JJ developed (as maintained by TOFKALCAD)"
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> Hmmm, original software only, or original software including our updates?
Which updates? The new mklist.exe? Fixed versions of James' part files? New
parts we've written?
I'd say it's everything included in the ldraw.exe distribution file. Which will
be the first two items (mklist and fixes), but not the third (new parts).
> LDraw? LDraw Suite? LDraw Package?
LDraw.
> > "part files for use with LDraw-Compatible tools, and sanctioned by TOFKALCAD"
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> Official ldraw.org Parts Updates.
I thought ldraw.org was the site, not the group. ;)
> > "formated to be compatible with LDraw and LEdit, as extended"
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> LDraw Compatible Editor/Viewer/Utility.
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> > > 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.
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> Yes. How bout these?
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> .ldr
> .ldm (LDraw Model)
> .lgo (stepping on toes there?)
None of them sing to me.
> > And file-extensions are inevitable. Out of roughly 50,000 possible TLX's,
> > Microsoft has sucked up half. Or so my registry tells me.
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> DANG!
I'm kidding.
Steve
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