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Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> writes: |
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> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:25, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 03 December 2003 12:47 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> > If you're getting rid of the virtuals file and calculating on-demand, |
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>> > why not the world file too? |
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>> Maybe because the world file cannot truly be recreated? |
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> Yeah that's true in the current system afaik..but after all, this is |
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> "ng." |
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The information contained in the world file is not duplicated; if you |
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want to be able to regenerate it, it would have to be backed up |
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somewhere, which isn't very useful. (Perhaps it should be called |
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something like ``automatically-update'' instead of ``world,'' though.) |
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard |
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