Caverot NT

[Olly Betts]

Martin - can you cc: replies to survex@survex.com - this is likely to be of
interest to other survex users with Windows NT.

In message <00a001c058a8$0b5a6f40$06e531d4@mjellistesco.net>, "Martin Ellis" wr
ites:
>As Wookey pointed out I forgot to say I'm using Survex 0.95
>
>I've tried the "--mode-picker" command on my Windows 98 machine and it's
>been tried on the NT machine that's causing the problems.  Neither recognise
>the command and both come up with
>
>unrecognized option '--mode-picker'
>
>I've tried most combinations of one or two '-' and leaving out the hyphen in
>mode-picker, but no success.
>
>Am I missing something obvious?

I've just checked and it looks like it needs to be the last thing on the
command line (i.e.: caverot.exe cavename.3d --mode-picker).  I'll fix this
in the next release.

While checking, I also noticed that it doesn't check for NT and select a VGA
mode as I thought it did.  I'll fix that too.

>When I was looking at the NT computer on Saturday I did think of rebooting
>in DOS, but this didn't seem to be a straightforward option (there certainly
>wasn't a 'Start' 'Shut Down' 'Re-start in DOS' option).  The owner of the
>computer would rather not bugger about with it's settings because, as he
>says, he does have to use it for work as well.

You'd probably have to install DOS as a second operating system.

>I've got a copy of Chasm (v0.4), but I haven't tried it out that much as I
>find it easier to run Survex via a DOS window.  If this is going to be the
>solution to the problem it looks like I'm going to have to get the hang of
>it.

One other possibility is to compile up a version of caverot which uses
directx to draw the display.  I've tried to do this, but it fails to build
for reasons I don't understand.  If anyone wants to give it a go, I'm happy
to explain what I was trying to do.

Cheers,
Olly