Thanx, it helps.
(Now I've got my dialup working in windows again, it broke when setting
com-speed to >33.6 :-/ )


Marc Schimmler wrote:
> 
> Spider wrote:
> >
> > ok, I'm gettings ready to install Linux (Redhat 5.2 for now, it's supposed to be
> > easy enough) and I want to know where and how to get pov up and running. As
> > well, what is the favoured editor, and how do i get it up and running??
> >
> > yeye, see me as the total newbie and so on. I'm looking forward for the use of
> > my system, for once :-)
> >
> 
> I don't know about Redhat (I use SuSe) but the 3.02 version should be in
> the distribution as a rpm. After installing there should be two
> executables. One is called x-povray which needs the X-windows
> environment and one is called s-povray which should be running on the
> console (using svgalib I guess ... never used it). You start povray by
> calling it with the command line options. With an .ini file this can be
> quit short. I could look like this:
> 
> >x-povray +itest.pov +l/home/Marc/povray3/include +w400 +h300 +d +v +p +x
> 
> There are even some programs out there that give you something like the
> interface in the windows world:
> 
>  http://www.cmpu.net/public/wdh/pov_motif/
> 
>  http://cspara.uah.edu/~mallozzir/software/xforms/xfpovray.html
> 
> I haven't used them. I prefer emacs.
> 
> I hope this one helps,
> 
> Marc
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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