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Why is it when I try to open L3P.exe it just appears for a brief second and then turns off? Does it have anything to do with Windows 2000? BTW I use L3Lab to generate my POV files, is there any way to incorporate L3PAO to use L3Lab to generate the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) L3P is a command-line DOS program, so you have to run it from MS-DOS Prompt. However, L3PAO is a Windows program, so you won't need to type any command lines for it. (...) Not that I know of, but it shouldn't be too difficult to set up L3PAO (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Mladen Pejic skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Well, if you just click on L3P.EXE in Explorer, you should expect this behavior, L3P needs all it's information as command line parameters. No parameters => nothing to do, so exit. If you *are* giving the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Also you need to know that as a DOS executable,L3P requires that a DOS environment variable be set so it can find the parts library. This can be added to your autoexec.bat. Check the documentation. Mine looks like this: set LDRAWDIR=C:\ldraw (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) to (...) should be no problem with the command line stuff. The only thing I can think of is that the set LDRAWDIR=(wherever ldraw is located) doesn't work. I put it in the autoexec, but still, l3p just shows the "help" message, or the commands (...) (25 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Mouser X wrote... (...) L3P is a DOS program. You must run it by typing L 3 P Enter in a DOS window. You should NOT put it into AUTOEXEC.BAT. However, it it convenient to put the "set LDRAWDIR=(wherever ldraw is located)" there, it saves you typing (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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Anders Isaksson wrote... (...) Right, L3P is a DOS program. You must run it by typing L 3 P Enter in a DOS window. You can NOT run it by double-clicking on it in the Explorer. (...) Use a WIN32 (beta) to overcome memory problems: (URL) can rename (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad)
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