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Re: L3PAO incompatibliity with Win2k? (was:Re: l3p hates me)
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev
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Wed, 12 Apr 2000 03:19:19 GMT
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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 everyones help in the matter!
-Doug
In lugnet.cad, Doug Glasnapp writes:
> 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 environment vars have been set properlyon
> both partitions, ie LDRAWDIR and l3p in a PATH dir, and LDAO installed.
>
> X-posted to lugnet.cad.dev, Since I think the developers should be aware, even
> though they probably read lugnet.cad as well. If this is a no-no, let me • know!
>
> Thanks
> -Doug
>
> In lugnet.cad, Doug Glasnapp writes:
> > In lugnet.cad, Lars C. Hassing writes:
> > > Doug Glasnapp wrote...
> > > > In lugnet.cad, Patricia Schempp writes:
> > > >
> > > > > anyway, one last
> > > > > question, where do i need to put l3pao.exe so I don't get "runtime
> > > > > error "76"
> > > > > PATH not found" ?
> > > >
> > > > 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+ldlite+mlcad+l3pao package. I have l3p in a PATHed
> > > > dir,
> > > > and LDRAWDIR set in the environment varibles. I am running Windows 2000,
> > > > and
> > > > I dont recall this happening when i was using 98. If anyone has found a
> > > > answer to this problem, or the info is somewhere in a FAQ of some sort, or
> > > > in
> > > > another place I would be very thankful.
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Doug
> > >
> > > 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 http://www.ntinternals.com called Filemon. I can monitor
> > > every file being opened/read/written in Windows and any application.
> > > I started Filemon and then double-clicked on l3pao.exe again.
> > > And I could see that L3PAO failed to open %BaseDirectory%/L3P !
> > >
> > > I don't know if Jeff fixed this, L3PAO should not rely on the existance
> > > of such a directory.
> > >
> > > But you can try creating a new (and empty) directory named L3P in the
> > > LDraw directory.
> > > /Lars
> >
> > Well, tried making the L3P dir. No luck.
> > Downloaded the filemon progie.
> > Looks like filemon people moved to here: http://www.sysinternals.com/.
> > Cool litte program!
> >
> > I found out that the last file l3pao has a problem with is winhelp.ini. I • did
> > a search for winhelp.ini on my win2k and 98 partitions. No such file. Did a
> > search on my winnt4 system. No file. So I create a empty file with the • name
> > in the d:\winnt\ dir (where its looking for it). Still no luck since its
> > trying to read the contents and it doesnt have any to give. The error
> > reported by the OS(via the filemon prog) is "RANGE NOT LOCKED". I am • guessing
> > that L3PA0 needs some settings from the windows help system, and since they
> > (M$) have changed to a new HTML help system, im guessing its not availible
> > anymore. I also could be compleley wrong! :)
> >
> > L3PAO helped my create my 1st raytraces, without it I wouldnt have been able
> > to eventually do this:
> > http://www.lugnet.com/cad/?n=3522
> > I would love to get it working again for me to raytrace some more of my
> > models.
> > Thanks
> > -Doug Glasnapp
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