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Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:18:18 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Matt Wagner wrote:
> Hi Tore, I've been following what you've been doing with great interest, and
> have some exciting ideas using your datshine program.  However, I can't seem to
> get it to work.  I've downloaded the program and extracted it to my LDraw
> directory.  I run it in a command window since double-clicking the datshine.exe
> file quits automatically.  But when I run it within a command window, I get the
> following error:
> 
> 
> C:\LDRAW>datshine
> 
> Datshine v 1.02 by Tore Eriksson
> 
> LDraw Base Directory not found!
> Please set LDRAWDIR environment string.
> C:\LDRAW>
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?  I really hope I can get this program to work, it
> looks like it can do some really cool things.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Wagner

Hi Matt,

I'm glad you find my project interesting. It's been down due to an assumed HD
crash (that fortunately turned out to be no more than just a loose cable!) but
after the Holidays, I'll pick it up again.

Before running datshine, please enter:
C:\LDRAW\set LDRAWDIR=C:\LDRAW
in the same command window.
If this fix works, you may edit C:\autoexec.bat by adding the line
set LDRAWDIR=C:\LDRAW
and reboot. Then you won't need to enter this environment string anymore.

Next step for me is to make datshine less picky about using LDRAWDIR, but that
will be a couple of days from now. Meanwhile, this tips should help you.

/Tore



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  Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
 
(...) Actually, autoexec.bat only works in DOS/Windows9x/WindowsME. In NT/Win2K/XP/Vista, you set environment variables via the System Control Panel. In XP, the following will work (and may work in NT/Win2K/Vista): Bring up the System Control Panel (...) (19 years ago, 24-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
 
Hi Tore, I've been following what you've been doing with great interest, and have some exciting ideas using your datshine program. However, I can't seem to get it to work. I've downloaded the program and extracted it to my LDraw directory. I run it (...) (19 years ago, 22-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad)

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