Roland Mas wrote:

> Preacher <nig### [at] hotmailcom> writes:
>
> > [...] I typed in the first example from my
> > book and tried to render it, and I get the error:
> > "Bad option syntax or error opening ..INI/.DEF file 'camera{'.   "
>
> I bet you types the command-line "povray first.pov" or something like
> that.  Well, don't.  You have to type "povray -i first.pov", so that
> POV-Ray knows first.pov is a POV scene file and not a parameters file.
> I suggest you have a look at "man povray", to know the basic switches
> to use when you invoke POV.
>
> Roland.
> --
> Roland Mas
>


Thanks for the advice.  My bad, I didn't read the man page...  I read
everything but.   thanks again.

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