[Radiance-general] OSX and resolving rview conflict

[Kirk Thibault]

man! - back to rvu - yep, that worked.   Thanks Rob.
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Kirk L. Thibault, Ph.D.
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On Sep 13, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Rob Guglielmetti wrote:

> Kirk Thibault wrote:
>
>
>> I know that the old alias "rvu" causes problems with the Mac OSX   
>> implementation of RADIANCE.  After installing RADIANCE 3.7 after   
>> installing OSX 10.4 now "rview" invokes ViM and has the same   
>> problem.  How do I get rview to call RADIANCE's rview and not the  
>> ViM?
>>
>> Thanks for the patient consideration of my inane Unix question.
>>
>
> Actually, the scene previewer rview was renamed to rvu last year,  
> since rview is commonly an alias to ViM on many Linux machines.  If  
> you've installed Radiance 3.7, then you should be able to call up  
> the scene previewer with "rvu";  rview is no longer used (to call  
> up the scene previewer-formerly-called-rview, that is).  =8-)
>
> Sounds like you have a clean install of Tiger and then you compiled  
> the latest Radiance source.  Assuming you saw no errors during  
> compiling, and you have your PATH and RAYPATH set, then rvu should  
> work for ya.  (let us know if it doesn't.)
>
> - Rob Guglielmetti
> www.rumblestrip.org
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