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64 lines
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PERSISTENCE OF VISION RAY TRACER
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POV-Ray VERSION 3.0
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR MS-Dos
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This file describes how to run the installation program for POV-Ray for
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MS-Dos. It is not the full documentation for the program.
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These procedures assume you have a basic knowledge of how to work with
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directories and files under dos. It assumes you know what the dos path is
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and how to edit your autoexec.bat file to change the path. The install
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program will offer to do it for you but if something goes wrong you may
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need to change it yourself. If you do not have knowledge about directories,
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paths, batch files or editors, your local bookstore has many tutorial books
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available that will help you. Don't be intimidated by the insulting titles
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of such books. The only true "dummies" are those who give up trying.
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If you have obtained this program on CD-ROM, it may already be set up so
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you can run it directly from the CD-ROM. These instructions assume that
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you will be installing the full package on your hard drive and not running
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it directly from the CD-ROM.
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You should have obtained this file from a self-extracting archive called
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POVMSDOS.EXE or something very similar. If you followed its banner
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instructions, you created a temporary directory and ran the self-extraction
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there. It should have created at least the following files:
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POVMSDOS.ZIP INSTALL.DOC INSTALL.EXE INSTALL.001 EXTERNAL.LNG
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FILE_ID.DIZ
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If any of these files are missing, you have received an incomplete package.
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Please notify the place where you obtained this package that distribution
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of an incomplete package is a violation of our license in the file
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POVLEGAL.DOC and makes them subject to litigation.
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If it created other files, that's probably no problem.
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Type the word INSTALL and press [ENTER]. This will run the program
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INSTALL.EXE which will ask you for the drive and directory where POV-Ray
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is actually to be installed. It will decompress the compressed files.
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It will offer to update your path in your autoexec.bat for you.
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You will have to re-boot your computer so the new path will take effect.
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If you do not want POV-Ray installed in your path then you have other
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options which are described in POVMSDOS.DOC which will appear in the
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installed directory.
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When installation is complete, please read POVMSDOS.DOC to learn how to
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run your first sample scene. The file includes important information about
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POV-Ray that is specific to the MS-Dos version of POV-Ray. It will
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explain display options, how to use the sample batch files, how to use
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other utilities with POV-Ray and other interesting information.
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If the sample scenes work with no problem, you may delete the all of the
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files in this temporary directory. Specifically these files are no longer
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needed:
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POVMSDOS.ZIP INSTALL.DOC INSTALL.EXE INSTALL.001 EXTERNAL.LNG
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FILE_ID.DIZ
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You should probably keep POVMSDOS.EXE around in case you ever need to
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re-install the program.
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