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- PERSISTENCE OF VISION RAY TRACER
-
- POV-Ray VERSION 3.02
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR MS-Dos
-
-
- This file describes how to run the installation program for POV-Ray for
- MS-Dos. It is not the full documentation for the program.
-
- These procedures assume you have a basic knowledge of how to work with
- directories and files under dos. It assumes you know what the dos path is
- and how to edit your autoexec.bat file to change the path. The install
- program will offer to do it for you but if something goes wrong you may
- need to change it yourself. If you do not have knowledge about directories,
- paths, batch files or editors, your local bookstore has many tutorial books
- available that will help you. Don't be intimidated by the insulting titles
- of such books. The only true "dummies" are those who give up trying.
-
- If you have obtained this program on CD-ROM, it may already be set up so
- you can run it directly from the CD-ROM. These instructions assume that
- you will be installing the full package on your hard drive and not running
- it directly from the CD-ROM.
-
- You should have obtained this file from a self-extracting archive called
- POVMSDOS.EXE or something very similar. If you followed its banner
- instructions, you created a temporary directory and ran the self-extraction
- there. It should have created at least the following files:
-
- POVMSDOS.ZIP INSTALL.DOC INSTALL.EXE INSTALL.001 EXTERNAL.LNG
- FILE_ID.DIZ
-
- If any of these files are missing, you have received an incomplete package.
- Please notify the place where you obtained this package that distribution
- of an incomplete package is a violation of our license in the file
- POVLEGAL.DOC and makes them subject to litigation.
-
- If it created other files, that's probably no problem.
-
- Type the word INSTALL and press [ENTER]. This will run the program
- INSTALL.EXE which will ask you for the drive and directory where POV-Ray
- is actually to be installed. It will decompress the compressed files.
- It will offer to update your path in your autoexec.bat for you.
- You will have to re-boot your computer so the new path will take effect.
- If you do not want POV-Ray installed in your path then you have other
- options which are described in POVMSDOS.DOC which will appear in the
- installed directory.
-
- When installation is complete, please read POVMSDOS.DOC to learn how to
- run your first sample scene. The file includes important information about
- POV-Ray that is specific to the MS-Dos version of POV-Ray. It will
- explain display options, how to use the sample batch files, how to use
- other utilities with POV-Ray and other interesting information.
-
- If the sample scenes work with no problem, you may delete the all of the
- files in this temporary directory. Specifically these files are no longer
- needed:
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- POVMSDOS.ZIP INSTALL.DOC INSTALL.EXE INSTALL.001 EXTERNAL.LNG
- FILE_ID.DIZ
-
- You should probably keep POVMSDOS.EXE around in case you ever need to
- re-install the program.
-