POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.windows : Context help problem in beta6 : Re: Context help problem in beta6 Server Time
28 Jul 2024 14:23:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Context help problem in beta6  
From: Philippe Debar
Date: 31 Aug 1998 04:57:14
Message: <35ea575a.0@news.povray.org>
Peter Popov wrote in message <35ea52b6.0@news.povray.org>...
>Has anybody encountered the following problem: when I hit Ctrl-F1 I get the
>following mesage:
>Cannot find the C:\PROGRAM FILES\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS 3.1\\Help\poray31.hlp
>file.
>Do you want to locate it yourself?
><Yes> <No>


Yes I have the same problem


>I click <Yes> and I get:
>Cannot find the C:\PROGRAM FILES\POV-RAY FOR WINDOWS 3.1\\Help\poray31.hlp
>file. Check to see that the file exists of your disk. If it doesnt, you
need
>to reinstall it.
>
>Did you notice the \\ in the path? Not a typo, that's what the message
says.
>POV-Ray beta5 crashed during uninstall and even though it disappeared from
>the disk and the add/remove list, when installing beta6 it said it detected
>an early version... Any ideas?


I didn't notice the \\. I had some difficulties installing beta6 also, so
maybe
this is it...

Can't help you more, sorry :-|

Sincerely,

Philippe


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