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| | | Okay, I'm new to ldraw stuff, and fairly inexperienced on the PC (I'm a Mac person, and a Unix geek by prefession). I built a PC specifically for ldraw stuff. Here's a summary of my progress... I installed ldraw and mlcad according to instructions (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | (...) Hi Amy, I'm Kevin Clague, one of the authors of the Power Tools books, and the author of LPub and LSynth. I'm sorry that things didn't work for you right out of the shoot. Folks tell me that installing the whole package off the power tools CD (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Amy Hughes
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| | | | | | | (...) LPub isn't finding POV-Ray. I'm working on the assumption that it's looking specifically for 3.1 and I have 3.5 installed. I'm going to install 3.1 in the coming days. LSynth isn't finding its own install directory. This may have something to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Miguel Agullo
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| | | | | | (...) ... (...) GRRRR! Actually, I'll happily take that criticism =8D ... Here come the excu ... cough! ... explanations: wordiness and redundancy are, at least in part, a side effect of reaching out to all audiences: beginners, regular users and (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Amy Hughes
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| | | | (...) I installed POV-Ray 3.1g, and now LPub and megapov run fine. The changes I made to the LGEO files (adding semicolons) to make them compatible with 3.5 work fine with 3.1. And with 3.1 I don't have to remove the version number that L3P puts in (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | (...) I don't even know what this last one means :^), but I'm glad you got them all working. Now you can take a risk and go for LPub 2.2 ;^) (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Amy Hughes
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| | | | (...) In Win2K (and later versions, and probably earlier NT versions) you can create multiple user accounts, and users are members of groups (e.g. administrators, users, guests). File permissions is something I'm familiar with in Unix but not (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Kevin L. Clague
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| | | | | (...) <snip> I'm also a unix geek, so permissions in that world are well understood by me. <snip> Windows is like hostile territory :-) *like* !?!?! Kevin (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Dan Boger
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| | | | | (...) not that I'm a windows native, but you can look at the registry permissions using regedt32.exe. Has anyone tried to run LSynth and LPub using wine, btw? Dan (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: new user installation summary —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | "Amy Hughes" <lugnews@amyhughes.org> skrev i meddelandet news:HE3uC5.1H18@lugnet.com... (...) create (...) administrators, (...) but not (...) security) (...) There's more than meets the eye! File (and directory) permissions in Win2K seems to be (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad)
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