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  Re: Uh, what does this superpatch do? (was)Re: ANNOUNCE: New Superpatch available for download (finally)  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 15 Jun 1999 15:18:37
Message: <3766a70d@news.povray.org>
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:03:00 +0100, Matthew Bennett wrote:
>Ron Parker wrote in message <37668107@news.povray.org>...
><snip>
>>crash, making the patch work with the 3.1e editor, and of course all the
>>official 3.1e fixes.
><snip>
>
>The patch does work alongside the 3.1e editor, but it seems the superpatch
>editor itself is still the 3.1a version (i.e. timer continues after
>rendering has been paused).  There isn't a way to take advantage of the
>windows/editor specific bugfixes in 3.1e when using the superpatch I assume?
>(Since only the DOS 3.1e bugfixes have been included...?)
>
>Am I right in thinking this?

You are correct.  The Windows 3.1e source code has not been released.
The only thing that makes it possible for you to use the 3.1e editor
with the superpatch is an unusally unreliable undocumented unsupported 
hack.


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