Chris B nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/07/26 12:09:
> "marciano" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
> news:web.46a8a67fe79adcf3152945570@news.povray.org...
>> Thanks to all of you.
>> I don't understand where my post is located.
>> The route above indicates :  POV-Ray :  POV-Ray : Newsgroups :
>> povray.newusers : Getting started
> 
> 
> Yes. That's where it appears. 'povray.newusers' is the newsgroup. 'Getting 
> started' is a message posted by Lhainel and the messages under that are 
> responses to his question. Unless my newsgroup reader is screwed up it looks 
> like you posted a response to Lhainel's post, whereas you'd have been better 
> off posting a new message.

Thunderbird show this thread as a new thread, distinct from any other older 
thread. Maybe OutlookExpress only rely on the name to link posts to a given thread.

> 
>> Should I repost?
> 
> By starting a new thread you're likely to get more readers and therefore a 
> better range and quality of response.
> 
> As you can tell I don't know the Mac version, but I'd recommend first maybe 
> having a go at re-installing it, taking care to check that there are no 
> nasty error messages from the installation. Then, if the Mac version has a 
> 'Render' menu option 'Run demo', try that and see what happens. Otherwise 
> load a POV file and try 'Render', 'Start rendering' or maybe there's a 'Run' 
> icon.

Installing on a Mac is prety simple: You drag the application to the application 
folder. To uninstall, you drag the application off of the application folder.

> 
> You may also wish to take a look at the mac newsgroup at 
> http://news.povray.org/./povray.macintosh/
> I see there are some discussions there about installation problems, greyed 
> out file options, setting the path to the include directory etc.

This should be the best place to look.

> 
>> I installed the last available version and installed on a Mac G4/400  1Gb
> 
> So that would be 3.6.??
> 
>> Ram OS 10.4.9
>> Thank you again
>>
> 
> If that still doesn't work you might try posting a new message here or on 
> povray.macintosh. You could still call it 'Getting started' or maybe 
> 'Getting started on Mac', and I'd recommend saying that you're on a Mac 
> G4/400 on OS 10.4.9 running POV-Ray 3.6.?? and describing what happens when 
> you try to 'Run demo' or 'Start rendering' (or that you can't because 
> they're still greyed out).
> 
> Regards,
> Chris B.
> 
> 


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Alain
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