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Beth,
At 10:06 PM 05/01/98 +1100, you wrote:
<snip>I
>have so far copied frms into fractint itself, and pars into a subdirectory
>of fractint, but I have no idea how to pull them together to create an
>image.
I would also create a subdirectory for your frms and put them in
there.

>I can call up the frm file, and then get a screen asking for
>parameters. I don't know what to put into what box,...
Probably most of us don't know what to put in there. So we
just plug in different numbers, etc and see what happens-
often good things do. :) If the box needs a function rather
than a number just press the left or right arrow key to
cycle through the functions. I hope I understood your
question correctly.

>and I thought there was
>some way of entering an entire par file into fractint, but so far I can't
>work it out.
Press the 2 or SHIFT-@ key on the top row of your keyboard.
This will let you load pars into fractint.

When fractint runs a par that requires an external formula, fractint
looks wherever you stored your formulae and reads everything
there until it finds (or doesn't) the formula it needs. But if
you set up a par subdirectory as recommended, you have to tell
fractint you did this. You tell fractint by creating an
SSTOOLS.INI file. This is just a text file that fractint
will read when it starts up. My SSTOOLS.INI looks like
this:

[fractint]
TEMPDIR=c:\windows\temp
WORKDIR=c:\fractint
PARMFILE=c:\fractint\parms\jaxdev.par <--- a default par file (optional)
                                           the important part is
                                           c:\fractint\parms where I keep pars
MAP=c:\fractint\maps                  <--- where I keep colour maps
FORMULAFILE=c:\fractint\formula       <--- where I keep formulae
LFILE=c:\fractint\lsys                <--- where I keep L-System files
IFSFILE=c:\fractint\ifs               <--- where I keep IFS files
SAVENAME=c:\data\fractint             <--- my default save location for gifs
FLOAT=yes                             <--- turn on floating point
TEXTSAFE=save                         <--- video card related
VIDEO=SF5                             <--- my default screen resolution
RECORDCOLORS=C                        <--- saves colour palette in gifs
                                      <--- the next few lines automatically
                                           insert information for me in
                                           any par files I create.
COMMENT=Title_goes_here/\
CalcTime_$calctime$_at_$xdots$x$ydots$_on_a_486DX-100/\
Image_Copyright_$month$_$day$_$year$_by_Jack_Valero/\
e-mail_to:_jval@globalserve.net

Of course, your SSTOOLS.INI should *not* include all my comments
that start with <--- and it should be in the same directory
as fractint.

All this information is included in the Fractint help but it
can be very difficult to find when you are just starting.
Fractint is great but not very friendly by today's standards.
It seems to be written by programmers for programmers.

I hope this helps.


Regards - Jack

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