Thank you very much

"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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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
>
> --
>    _  | Peter J. Holzer    | Es war nicht Gegenstand der Abstimmung zu

> | |   | hjp### [at] wsracat      | Zahlen neu festzulegen.
> __/   | http://www.hjp.at/ |    -- Johannes Schwenke <jby### [at] ginkode>

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Are you sure you are not running povray like this:

povray myfile.pov

?

(Should be: povray -i myfile.pov)

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:12:35 -0600, David F wrote:
>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. 

There was a bit more information even before. According to your original
post, it said:

| File init error.
| Error opening output file.

Now it should say something like:

| File init error.
| Error opening output file `foo.png': Permission denied.

If you still get the original message, you are probably not running 
the executable. Did you run "make install"? Type 

    ls -l `which megapov` 

to see where your povray binary is located, and whether the modification
date is what you expect (I didn't notice before that you are using
megapov. I wrote the patch for megapov, but my patching instructions
were for regular pov - the only difference is the name of the source
directory, though).

	hp

-- 
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| |   | hjp### [at] wsracat      | Zahlen neu festzulegen.
__/   | http://www.hjp.at/ |	-- Johannes Schwenke <jby### [at] ginkode>

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Thank you all for your help.  I found the error, and it's one of those where
I will be kicking myself for weks now for not noticing earlier.  It is, as
you said in one of your earlier posts to this thread, Warp, permissions.  I
had initially rendered this file while logged in as su, and I didn't delete
the output file.  Therefore, when I run it logged in under something else, I
couldn't alter the output file.  Thank you again for all your help
everyone!!!

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David F wrote:
> 
> had initially rendered this file while logged in as su, and I didn't delete
> the output file.

Never run anything as su unless you really have to.

-- 
Margus Ramst

Personal e-mail: mar### [at] peakeduee
TAG (Team Assistance Group) e-mail: mar### [at] tagpovrayorg
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