Due to changes introduced late in Mac OS X 10.2 opening files via the
File:Open menu command and dialog box is not possible.  Mac OS X will
terminate POV-Ray.  As you may know, POV-Ray works flawlessly under Mac OS X
10.1.5 as well as Mac OS 8/9.  The behavior in Mac OS X 10.2 appears to be a
bug in this particular version of Mac OS X.  We have contacted Apple to find
out whether there is a workaround we can implement in POV-Ray or whether
this requires a bugfix in Mac OS X provided by Apple.

For the time being you can open files via the Finder as usual.

You can also opening files by adding them to the Render Queue and starting
the render.

If neither of these options is acceptable, you may also configure Mac OS X
to start POV-Ray 3.5 in the classic environment.  The Mac OS X help system
provides details how to do this via the Get Info dialog.

The only way you cannot open files is via the File:Open menu command or
Apple-O key combination (these two are equivalent).

All other functions of POV-Ray 3.5 for Mac OS should work with Mac OS X 10.2
without problems.

We apologize for the inconvenience!


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Thorsten Froehlich
e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg

I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

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