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1.1 What is POV-Ray?

POV-Ray (also known as "Persistance of Vision" Raytracer) is a high level
raytracing graphics package that rivels commercial packages.

POV-Ray takes a text scene file that describes the scene and outputs a
rendered image. Their are numerous utilities, editors, libraries,
converters and cad applications that makes POV-Ray a powerful package.

POV-Ray was developed from DKB-Trace developed by David K Buck and has been
ported to numerous platforms.

I decided to to an OpenVMS port of POV-Ray since the advent of the "OpenVMS
Hobbyist" program as may a good and powerful Alpha and VAX system are
showing up on the hobbyist market looking for something to do.

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1.2 What is the current version of POV-Ray?

Currently the "official" release of POV-Ray is v3.1g.

The OpenVMS port of POV-Ray was done using the Unix POV-Ray v3.1g source
code.

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1.3 Where can I get it?

The "official" POV-Ray distribution source code site can be found at
ftp://ftp.povray.org/pub/povray/Official/Unix/.

The "official" POV-Ray for OpenVMS distribution source code can be found at
http://www.ourservers.net/public/vms/povray/vms_povray31.zip [Image]

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1.4 Where can I go for further information?

The BEST site for more information on POV-Ray in general along with
documentation and extra bits & pieces of scene code can be found at the
POV-Ray - the Persistance of Vision Raytracer.

You can also get help from the UseNet News group
comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing.

You can also get ALOT MORE help from the POV-Ray News Server at
news.povray.org

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1.5 How do I subscribe to the POV-Ray Mailing List?

To subscribe to the POV-Ray mailing list, send an e-mail to
listserv%TREARN.BITNET@vm .gmd.de with "subscribe dkb-l" in the body of the
message.

Please note that the OpenVMS port was not done by these people so they may
not be able to help you with any OpenVMS specific problems. They will be
able to help you out with general POV-Ray problems or any problems you
suspect is in the base POV-Ray code tree.

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1.6 How do I submit patches or bug reports?

If you detect a bug in the copile/link scripts, or make some improvements
or have any comments on the OpenVMS code, send an e-mail to Robert Alan
Byer.

I will try to answer any and all questions and problems, but I can't make
any guarantes and will try to the best of my ability.

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