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- From: gwebster@ugly.UVic.CA (This space for rent)
- Subject: Re: POV ray 1.0 (DOS) under OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.031020.16028@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <1992Jul27.144730.24096@dragon.acadiau.ca> <1992Jul28.061954.8122@sol.UVic.CA> <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 03:10:20 GMT
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- In article <Bs3z3J.B37@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> ychung@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung) writes:
- >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)
- >>
- >
- >
- >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.
-
- I searched the help file on VNPX, and it calls it a Numeric Processor Extension
- (80387). Sounds like a co-pro emulator to me, but it doesn't seem to work.
- Maybe I am using it wrong?
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