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- From: ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
- Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
- Message-ID: <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:57:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter) writes:
- >>
- >>I was wondering if anyone else has tried running POV ray 1.0 from a DOS
- >>session under OS/2 (without a math co-processor) without problems.
- >>
- >>OS/2 gives a "trying to execute a NFX instruction and NFX processor
- >>does not exist" error (or something like this) .
- >>
- >>The program works fine under DOS without a math co-pro. Am I doing something
- >>wrong?
- >>
- >
- >I ran into the same problem, and have not been able to get the program to work.
- >
- >I have the coprocessor emulation enabled (the line in my config.sys file
- >reads DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VNPX.SYS)
- >
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- Are you sure VNPX.SYS is a coprocessor emulator? I tried it and it gives
- me the error even before it loads up the PoVRay exec.
- Even a separate 387 emulator doesn't help even though sysinfo says I have
- 387 installed.
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