well not quite, but I want to install pov 3.1 onto a Mac LCII.

[i also posted this in pov.mac]

I have the binhex of the 68k version on my PC but its 6 megs so how do I get
it across to the Mac?

I somehow managed it before with the no-floating-point-version by splitting
the binhex file into six 1 meg chunks in textpad on the PC, saving them as
plain text, throwing them on floppy disks across to the mac and re-building
the binhex file in word (again saving as plain text) and miraculously
expanding it with stuffit expander to get a full working version of Pov.
then I got an FPU for it and want to install the FPU version, cos 10 million
hours is a long time to take to render skyvase...

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Jim

heres the specs for the LCII:

68020 CPU @ 16Mhz
68888 FPU @ 32MHz
1 Gb Hardisk
10 Mb RAM
No networking/modem

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> 68020 CPU @ 16Mhz
> 68888 FPU @ 32MHz
> 1 Gb Hardisk
> 10 Mb RAM
> No networking/modem

Those specs match a Commodore Amiga A2000 very closely.
One idea for a transfer is a null modem cable with hand coded
linking software.  (This goes in a serial or parallel/printer port)
Another idea is to make a simple splitting program to split the
file for multiple floppies and rejoin like before.  If the computers
are openable, one could also use a windows mac emulator to
copy the file to the harddrive when connected to the PC and
then reconnect it to the Mac.

N Shomber

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:13:52 -0800, N Shomber wrote:
>> 68020 CPU @ 16Mhz
>> 68888 FPU @ 32MHz
>> 1 Gb Hardisk
>> 10 Mb RAM
>> No networking/modem
> 
> Those specs match a Commodore Amiga A2000 very closely.

Only one that's been upgraded severely.  The base configuration of an 
A2000, IIRC, was a 68000, no FPU, no hard disk, and 1MB of RAM.

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"James Taylor" <jam### [at] jamestaylorfsworldcouk> wrote in message
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What about PKZIP using disk-spanning?

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"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> "James Taylor" <jam### [at] jamestaylorfsworldcouk> wrote in message
> news:3c1544e2@news.povray.org...
>
> What about PKZIP using disk-spanning?
>
>

I'll try it with PKZip, but the mac doesn't like winzip disk-spans.

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"James Taylor" <jam### [at] jamestaylorfsworldcouk> wrote in message
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> "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
> news:3c15d264$1@news.povray.org...
> > "James Taylor" <jam### [at] jamestaylorfsworldcouk> wrote in message
> > news:3c1544e2@news.povray.org...
> >
> > What about PKZIP using disk-spanning?
> >
> >
>
> I'll try it with PKZip, but the mac doesn't like winzip disk-spans.
>

boo-hiss - do you have anything resembling a command prompt on the mac - I've
got a perl prog that will split a binary file into a specified number of chunks.
Putting them back together again with or without perl is fairly straight
forward - file1.bit >> file.exe etc.

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James Taylor wrote:
> 
> well not quite, but I want to install pov 3.1 onto a Mac LCII.
> 
> [i also posted this in pov.mac]
> 
> I have the binhex of the 68k version on my PC but its 6 megs so how do I get
> it across to the Mac?

Got another Mac and a printer cable? If so, Appletalk is your friend...

-Xplo

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