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28 Sep 2024 18:12:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Deployment of POV-Ray on Windows 2000 in a school  
From: Soeren Kuklau
Date: 23 Jul 2003 17:18:51
Message: <20030723231850931+0200@news.povray.org>
Chris Cason wrote on 21 Jul 2003 11:28  Uhr:

> "Soeren Kuklau" <use### [at] chuckerrasdinet> wrote in message news:
> 20030717221931283+0200@news.povray.org...

>> I suspect that even though the installer offers to install into a 
>> custom directory, the app does not truly support this, and still 
>> expects at least some of its files to reside in C:\Programs\POV-... - 
>> this, however, is bad application design (and not something I'd 
>> expect from this otherwise great program). As the source code is open

> It's also a bad assumption, because the program does not do this.

True; I'll take that back. There was apparently a Zombie entry in the 
tested user's HKCU registry tree, which pointed to a C:\Progra... 
location (I still have no idea how it got there, though).

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