ok, I applied the patch, recompiled, and make sure I was runnign it in the same
directory so that I would have premission to render the file.   I still get the
ubiquitous "file init error" and no further information.  I get this error when I
run x-povray as well, so I know it is not MegaPOV specific.

"Peter J. Holzer" wrote:

> On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:49:42 -0600, David F wrote:
> >I'm really showing my newbie status, but what am I supposed to do with this?
>
> Save the message with the patch to a file (e.g., "/tmp/errmsg.patch")
>
> Get the povray sources, if you don't have them already, and unpack them.
>
> Go to the source directory (cd povray31/source)
>
> Invoke the patch command:
>
>     patch < /tmp/errmsg.patch
>
> It should mumble a bit about successfully applying some hunks, and if
> you look into povray.c and render.c afterwards, you should see the new
> error messages there.
>
> Recompile povray as explained in the file CMPL_Unix.doc.
>
>         hp
>
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