POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Arrrgggh! : Re: Arrrgggh! Server Time
6 Sep 2024 07:18:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Arrrgggh!  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 20 Mar 2009 02:27:38
Message: <49c3375a@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> 
> You're not supposed to use symlinks in Windows. That's why there's no
> trivial manual way of doing things. There are better mechanisms for
> achieving that end. Hence, complaining it's not as easy to use symlinks
> under Windows is like complaining there's no easy way to do COM-like
> operations under Unix. That just isn't how you do things in Unix.
> 

I don't want to turn this to flamewar, but what is a better mechanism to
get same data readable from two different directories with the same
filename? Should the data location be written to registry and checked by
there before reading?

-Aero


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