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- From: tomd@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Tom Davidson)
- Subject: Re: POV won't parse properly
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.134406.26141@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Keywords: POV Parse
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
- References: <1992Jul20.212309.2879@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:44:06 GMT
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- rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
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- >
- > I've been trying to compile the POV raytracer, but am having
- >trouble making it parse properly. I'm trying to make it work on a
- >mainframe running Unix. Every time I try to run a file through it
- > it chokes and gives me the cryptic message
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- >Parsing...Error in file sunset.dat line 4
-
- > OBJECT expected but IDENTIFIER found instead
-
- I had this problem also when I tried to run the POV version I had gotten from .carleton
- I spoke to Aaron Collins about the error and we did a diff of the parser that
- I had FTPed versus his version on the BBS, they were different! . The problem
- was solved by using the BBS version.
-