ship-conv.pl is a Lightwave object to Scheme converter written by Stuart Teasdale <moose@durge.org>. It will shortly be replaced by a new tool that is capable of handling multiple input formats and outputs files conforming to Mote's new internal representation.
ship-conv.pl will return an exit status of zero upon successful conversion. The non-zero exit states will print the following error messages to STDOUT:
The tool was unable to open the input filename. It is likely that you have miskeyed the name or the file specified does not allow your user ID read priviledges.
The tool was unable to open the output file for writing. It is likely that the permissions on the current directory have caused this.
Lightwave Object Files are of type EA85 IFF (input file format?). Therefore if ship-conv detects that the input file is not of this type it will immediately exit. It may be that the input file has been corrupted in some way.
Though the file is of the correct IFF type, it is not itself a Lightwave object file. Confirm that the file has not been corrupted.
Please report any bugs in this manpage (or Mote itself) to <bugs@mote.sourceforge.net>. Also, please note that the Scheme extension system is deprecated and therefore ship-conv will soon be replaced by another tool to convert model files of varying types into the new internal representation format.