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  Re: Open *.inc file via command line / explorer  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 11 Aug 2011 11:45:07
Message: <4e43f903@news.povray.org>
On 11.08.11 03:58, H. Karsten wrote:
> Christian Froeschlin<chr### [at] chrfrde>  wrote:
>> If I pass an inc file as command line parameter (or, more usefully,
>> try to open an inc file in the Windows editor from Windows Explorer
>> by double-clicking), this attempts to process the file as an INI
>> file, then chokes on it (this is not a valid ini file).
>>
>> Tested using 3.7 RC3 Windows x64 version. I would have expected
>> the file to be opened in the editor as with pov files.
>
> To me this sounds like a problem initiated by a third-party app that uses it's
> own way of handling files, using ".ini" as extension.
> It seams, that some bug in it also has being affected the way of handling files
> that comes with a ".inc" extension.

??? This is not what he says at all. He says that when opening an inc file 
that is correctly associated with POV-Ray is parsed as INI file rather than 
being opened in the editor.

So the question is how 3.6 behaved or if this is a new bug in the command 
line parser.

	Thorsten


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