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First thing to check, this sounds like the problem I was having.. l3p can't find your pov-ray directory to save the files into.. POV has to be in a 8.3 dos type name format.. of course this means reinstalling it.. and I'd use a very short name.. my (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Ok, its probably because I'm a dos dummy. I'm sure this is a simple answer, but I'd really appreciate help. Using win98, I got Ledit/Ldraw going fine, got l3p, edited my autoexec.bat with set LDRAWDIR =D:Ldraw, and now I'm stumped. I've been putting (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yeah -- I personally feel that DOS hates everyone. :-, (...) ***NOTE THE SPACE*** ---^ (...) You might want to double-check your LDRAWDIR setting. I noteice that there is a space in your text. If that's exactly how you have it in your (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Where did you put l3p? I think the instructions said to place it in a directory which is in your PATH statement, like c:\windows. Then l3p will run from anywhere, and the POV files (at least by default) end up in the directory you are running it (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Is the entry in autoexec.bat like: set LDRAWDIR =D:\Ldraw or is it set LDRAWDIR=D:\Ldraw ? It should be more like the second entry. In particular, avoid spaces around the equal sign, and be sure there's a backslash after the D:. (...) Did you (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Ok..renamed/reinstalled POVray, got LDAO, (works) got visual basic module, got l3pao, this give me "run time error "76" PATH not found. and lp3 didn't do anymore than it did before. bleck. (25 years ago, 8-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ok, I didn't have a space in the set command, in fact it looks just like yours. however, I still get the *** stuff. Does the set command need to go in a specific place? I'm using the dos edit and then editing c:windows\command\eb...toexec.bat (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) nope..no space... (...) yep, rebooted. (...) no..i don't get any error message. Dang. patricia schempp (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hmm...how exactly do I do this? I moved the l3p directory to c:windows and then when i went to my ldraw directory and typed l3p it just said bad command or filename. I really don't know crap about dos. what is a PATH statement exactly? I'm (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hmm. I have no idea what 'ebd' might indicate. Emergency Backup Data? Anyway, the 'real' autoexec.bat is always located in the root of the boot drive. You want to edit c:\autoexec.bat. You can also type the SET command at a DOS prompt, and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) (Quotes are just in here to make it easier to read) Okay, try putting "l3p.exe" in "c:\windows". If that doesn't work, try "C:\windows\command". If neither of those works, check your autoexec.bat for any statements that start with "PATH=". If (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Patricia Schempp <pschemp@clemson.edu> wrote in message news:37864BC8.A97FF8...son.edu... (...) I think many Win95 machines don't have autoexec.bat's by default, since most system setting are handled by Windows. Try just adding the line to the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) It's not surprising that your autoexec.bat is empty. Well, a little surprising, but not super-surprising. You should be able to edit c:\autoexec.bat in any text editor. In Windows, run the sysedit program (also opens some other important (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Thank you to everyone who is helping me! It makes me happy that people are willing to do this. :) Hmm.... The problem may be that when I go into dos and type edit c:\autoexec.bat I get an empty file in the editor. My computer shows it, and explorer (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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Yes! It works. Thanks peoples! I put the set command in the blank autoexec and that did it. dang win98. Yeah! what a neat program. anyway, one last question, where do i need to put l3pao.exe so I don't get "runtime error "76" PATH not found" ? (25 years ago, 9-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) The PATH statement simply tells the system where to look for files. So you could be in any directory and type 'l3p' on a command line and the system could run it. But why? You don't need to run l3p from the command line. That is what shortcuts (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I am recieving this error(runtime error 76, path not found) every time I try and run L3PAO after I have gone and reinstalled the whole ldraw+l3p+ldao+l3lab...lcad+l3pao package. I have l3p in a PATHed dir, and LDRAWDIR set in the environment (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Doug Glasnapp wrote... (...) The first time I ran L3PAO I also got this runtime error 76: L3PAO Run-time error '76': Path not found Since it didn't tell which path it could not find, I ran this great program from (URL) called Filemon. I can monitor (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) error "76" (...) dir, (...) and (...) in (...) Well, tried making the L3P dir. No luck. Downloaded the filemon progie. Looks like filemon people moved to here: (URL) litte program! I found out that the last file l3pao has a problem with is (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Got on update on this situation. Seems that L3PAO is not compatible with Windows 2000 in some way(maybe just on my machine? i dunno). When I booted into Windows 98 on the same machine, and ran the shortcut to the same location, L3PAO worked. All (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Ok, fixed this problem. After a better and more careful look at what NTFilemon told me, I decided to create another LDraw directory within my current LDraw directory. I also now seem to remember this problem happening originally as well. Thanks for (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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