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1Daedalus wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trf de> wrote:
>
>>1Daedalus wrote:
>>
>>>The Windows section of the download says, "The 32-bit version requires at
>>>least Windows 95 ...", implying that it will run on Windows/95; however the
>>>current v3.6 binary does not. It installs properly but when you attempt to
>>>start povray, an error message-box appears saying somthing about povray
>>>being linked to shell.dll which is missing export GetSpecialFolderNames."
>>>
>>>It would be helpful to have a binary that continues to run properly on
>>>Windows/95, thanks.
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>>You should install the strongly recommended Internet Explorer 4 if you
>>haven't. A proper shell.dll certainly is included with it. I don't know if
>>it is included in IE 3 or not (the download page says IE 3 is required, that
>>might be outdated, I just don't know.)
>>
>>The function you are missing probably is "SHGetSpecialFolderPath" as there
>>is no such thing as "GetSpecialFolderNames" anywhere in the POV-Ray for
>>Windows source code.
>>
>> Thorsten
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> This system has IE 5.0 installed. The unsuported function POV-ray
> references is actually "SHGetSpecialFolderPathA" (the non-unicode version
> of that Win32 API function).
>
Sounds like Shell32.dll was replaced by an older version. I'd recommend
reinstalling IE5 or downloading and installing IE6 (if it runs on 95...)
--
~Mike
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