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FreeWRL VRML97 viewer installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Sep 26 11:59:04 2001
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:57:08 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
I've installed FreeWRL, a VRML97 file viewer, for Linux and Sun. To
run it you need to launch it with at least one command-line parameter,
which is a .wrl file to view; i.e. if file "test.wrl" is in the
current directory you can do:
add freewrl
freewrl test.wrl (you can type a URL also)
to view the image (typing just "freewrl" by itself won't work).
To get best modeling add a "-best" switch:
freewrl -best test.wrl
Type "man freewrl" after adding the locker for instructions.
freewrl is targeted for Linux, and works best on that platform. Some
things don't work on Suns, and it may print error messages or crash on
some inputs on Suns.
There are test files that show some of FreeWRL's capabilities- most of
these are in /mit/freewrl_v0.29/distrib/share/tests (a fair number of
these won't work on Suns). See also http://web/acs/www/whererunsa.html#FreeWRL
for some additional information.
Alex
