Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> You shouldn't be storing any modifiable configuration information under
> C:Program Files.  That's for, you know, program files. ;-)

So why does the POV-Ray install put that file there?  There is an "Edit
resolution INI file" option in the Tools menu which I assume the makers
wanted us to be able to use.

> You are. You just don't know it.

I wouldn't doubt that.  I haven't fully understood one of Microsoft's
operating systems since MS-DOS.

> I don't know what that sentence means. Which "command line"? You mean
> invoking POV-Ray's render engine with command-line arguments? I don't
> know.  I would doubt it, somehow, unless perhaps it's trying to write
> into the program-files directory as it renders or something.

By command line I meant +H800 +W800 +FN +A -J +KFI1 +KFF36 +KI0 +KF1 +KC.
But I have since found that +H800 +W800 +FN +A -J by itself does work.

And if POV-Ray were trying to write into the program-files directory
shouldn't it give you an error message?  Why just say "Not Responding".
Then again this error message:

http://www.wwwmwww.com/images/VistaError.png

Said nothing about needing to be ran as an adminstrator or that files in the
program-files directory couldn't be writen to.  Why say check path and file
name when notepad had no problem opening the file?  I feel like screaming
at someone at Microsoft.

> Just be aware that Vista is different from previous versions in that
> respect, because no matter how hard Microsoft tried to get people to
> treat it as a secure multi-user platform, they refused for various
> reasons. :-)

Is the "they" you are refering to Microsoft or me?  I don't know enough
about secure multi-user platforms to know how to treat one.  I'm simply
trying to do what the POV-Ray documentation tells me should work.  I don't
want to have to make things any more complicated then I have to.

Pulling my hair out...
Carl

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