Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
                           Version 3.00a
         *Unofficial* BeOS version Specific Documentation

This file contains the documentation specific to compiling and running
POV-Ray on BeBoxes running the BeOS (currently 1.1d7).

To use it you need to get the 2 generic, unix archives, povuni_d.tar.gz
and povuni_s.tar.gz. Unpack them where you want, and untar in the same
directory, they share the same directory structure.
Then unpack and untar the pov3_beos.tar.gz archive from where you unpacked
the 2 previous archives. 
This will create a directory beos/ besides unix/, and replace some source/
files that need changes.
Most of the unix doc files apply to this version, especially for output
capabilities, ini and .*rc files, and environment variables.

You should definitely get the "official" BeOS shared versions of libz and
libpng maintained by Jake Hamby, available at his home page or at ftp.be.com,
/pub/contrib/librarie/zlib* and libpng*.
*YOU NEED* libz.so and libpng.so, either in /system/lib or where you put the
povray binaries to run them !
To compile, go to beos/, edit makefile and set PNGDIR and ZLIBDIR to where
you have the libz and libpng include files, then type make.

If you want to recompile mpovray (povray 3 with libmoto), get libmoto.o from
ftp://www.mot.com/pub/SPS/PowerPC/software/beos/libmoto/libmoto_bedev.tar.gz,
put it in source/beos then type make mpovray.

Please remember that this version does not support preview display, while the
one provided by William Adams from BeSpecific does. So there is little point
in using mine, except maybe for those who don't have the full CW version and
don't want to wait for William to release a version linked with libmoto.
But anyway, as i have been requested to release this, here it is. Enjoy !

Benoit Triquet
triquet_ben@lsi.supelec.fr

"I see no reason why everybody would want a computer at home"
1979, Ken Olson, D.E.C. chairman