Well, I tried what you said and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the
help....I wish Pov-Ray compile docs were a bit more helpful in that matter
(though, I guess they really don't have to be wish so few people compiling it
themselves).

Good luck, and happy tracing!

Tim Soderstrom
TigerHawk

cab5 wrote:

> It could be two things that I know of.  First the simple thing.  Make
> sure you built the xwindows binary, not just the unix binary (which
> doesn't know about X, so it tries to output an ascii approximation of
> the image to the console or the xterm you called it from.)
>
> I found I still had this problem, even with the X windows compile.  The
> problem only happened when I did a "make newunix" followed by a "make
> xwin".  In theory, this shouldn't be a problem but... try doing a "make
> clean ; make newxwin" and see if the x-povray binary works properly for
> you.  I wonder if this qualifies as a bug in the makefile?
>

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