"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:42eb128c@news.povray.org...
>
> when clicking on 'pvengine.ini':
>
>     "Command line processing error:
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>    Only /Edit and /Render may be passed to the previous instance."
>
>    Clicking on pvengine.ini opens PovRay, and then I get the above error.
>
>    I'm thinking this is an 'association' thing?
>
>    (Wow! Update: It must be. I've just clicked on unrelated *.ini files 
> and PoV wants to open them all!)
>
>     Thanks for your help Bob, any ideas as to what to do now?

Um... mine opens into Notepad here, Steve.

I chose this way long ago to open these kinds of files but I've forgotten if 
POV sets up to do so. I've always wanted to see these files since they are 
from various programs, Windows, etc.; not only POV-Ray ones. I just don't 
remember any more, but could be POV tries to include them itself when it 
gets installed. Then again, INI isn't a renderable file and besides, that 
error message suggests it was doing something else with it-- as it probably 
should, since it is a settings file. So seems it wants a pov scene file 
along with it, if anything.

I tried switching the opening program over to POV (3.6.1 here) and it does 
open it into the editor okay, no errors.

You could go into My Computer (or Explorer) menu Tools, then Folder Options, 
finally File Types and select INI from the list to make changes in how it is 
opened. Or easier still, use the Explorer to right-click on a INI file and 
select Properties then the Change... button to choose a different program 
like Notepad (or POV-Ray).

Far as ideas, guess that's all I can say.

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