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  Re: using both a global and a local .ini file  
From: clipka
Date: 11 Jun 2009 14:20:01
Message: <web.4a314a99f13ccd8c7371b39b0@news.povray.org>
Klaus Nowikow <kla### [at] gmxat> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am using povray-3.6.1 on Gentoo. There's a global ini
> file /etc/povray/povray.ini containing some Library_Path entries
> for the standard libs.
>
> I put some include files that I downloaded or created myself into
> %HOME/povray/include and created a local ini file
> $HOME/.povray/3.6/povray.ini containing a corresponding Library_Path
> entry. When I start povray now, it seems to ignore the global ini file
> and only use my local one, thus not finding the standard libraries any
> more. Is there a way to tell povray to use the global file first and
> then load the local one?

Never tried this, but I think a simple

  /etc/povray/povray.ini

at the beginning of your local .ini file should do the job of invoking the
global one.


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