[Radiance-general] RE: Bash error message

[Terrance McMinn]

>bash: rvu: command not found

This is indeed a path error. Essentially the shell (bash) was unable to
locate the program (rvu) in any of the folders listed in the path.

Check that the path you believe does indeed point to the appropriate
directories using
echo $PATH

Tips:
1) Be aware of any additional 'spaces' in the folder names. They will
need to be escaped e.g. "Program Folder" is written as "Program\
Folder".
2) Be aware that UNIX (in this case Cygwin and bash are case sensitive)
while Microsoft windows is not.

Personally, I have found that Cygwin is not for the 'newbie' more those
that know UNIX and need to bring some of its power to the Microsoft
windows environment. 'Newbie's' to UNIX are more often better to jump
directly into UNIX/Linux/OSX (command line).

An alternative to installing Linux on your PC/or buying a MAC, is to use
one of the live cd projects available, where everything is pre installed
such as can be found at Axel Jacobs website -
http://luminance.londonmet.ac.uk/ In particular Curtin Radiance images
or Axels' Learnix image.

Regards 

Terry Mc Minn
Faculty of Built Environment, Art and Design
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U 1987 Perth 6845 Western Australia
Email: T.Mcminn at curtin.edu.au
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