thanks for the help ... I just tried simple rebooting ... and it worked the
next time even without removing this file ...

wired !

Wolfgang



"Alan Kong" <ako### [at] povrayNO-SPAMorg> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:40:36 -0700 "Wolf Manos"
> <wol### [at] to_much_spamcom> wrote:
>
> >if I invoke the 'Help on POVRay Scene Language' from inside POVRay I get
an
> >error message:
> >    An error exists in this Help file. Contact your application vendor
for
> >an updated Help file (1024)
>
>   Hi, Wolf. The following message pasted in below may help you. It was
> originally posted in the povray.windows group since it pertains only to
> the Windows Help file.
>
> --
> Alan - ako### [at] povrayorg - a k o n g <at> p o v r a y <dot> o r g
> http://www.povray.org - Home of the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
>
> On Sun, 28 May 2000 23:56:42 GMT pro### [at] homecom (Rob Rippengale)
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Been using POV-Ray for some time now, but just got
> >into the newsgroups, and cannot see a better solution
> >to a problem I have been having, so I offer my own
> >workaround for the mysterious "error in Help
> >file - contact your vendor" situation.
> >
> >If you don't know what I am talking about you can
> >happily ignore the rest of this post.
> >
> >I am running the latest POV-Ray for Windows
> >Version 3.1g.msvc.win32 (Pentium II optimized).
> >
> >I got tired of re-installing and finally discovered that the
> >GID file associated with the helpfile seems to somehow
> >get corrupted.
> >
> >Remove the GID file and it wll be recreated the next time
> >you access the help file, but there is a twist - you have to
> >also reboot before you try to use Help again. Don't ask
> >me why. It's dark in there. Anyway I added some lines to my
> >autoexec.bat file to clean away that GID file every time I boot.
> >
> >I seem to get the error much less often, and when I do get
> >it, I just reboot and autoexec.bat cleans up. Put the following
> >lines in your autoexec.bat file without the leading quote used
> >here. Of course, you should also edit the path to reflect your
> >own installion directory.
> >
> >"IF NOT EXIST F:\POVRAY\HELP\POVRAY31.GID GOTO AFTERPOV
> >"ATTRIB -H F:\POVRAY\HELP\POVRAY31.GID
> >"DEL F:\POVRAY\HELP\POVRAY31.GID
> >":AFTERPOV
> >
> >Note the leading colon on that last line. It marks a GOTO destination.
> >and should be the first character on that line.
> >
> >In case you can't guess, the "IF NOT EXIST" test avoids the error
> >message that would happen if you try to remove the file when it isn't
> >there (the file is only recreated when the help file is accessed), and
> >the "ATTRIB" line makes the GID file "unhidden" so the "DEL"
> >command can find it.
> >
> >Pretty simple, and it works, but I still have to reboot when I get the
> >annoying "error in help file" message. It's a pain, but not so bad
> >as re-installing POV-Ray.
> >
> >If a more permanent solution has been found and I have just not read
> >enough newsgroup material, please enlighten me.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Rstudio (aka Probity, aka Rob Rippengale)
>

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