POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : INI file error in Mac : Re: INI file error in Mac Server Time
3 Oct 2024 19:18:00 EDT (-0400)
  Re: INI file error in Mac  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 4 Jan 1999 13:08:42
Message: <369103aa.0@news.povray.org>
In article <36902F5E.62469813@home.com> , Olga Swartz <ODS### [at] homecom>  wrote:
>I'm attempting to follow POV-Ray MacOS Read-Me Doc; download and expansion
>were successful.  Following directions in item 3. DOUBLE CLICK ... resulted in
>this message:
>
>INI file error.
>Could not open Include_Ini='basicvue.ini'.
>-- [SHELL:FATAL_SHL]

Please disregard my first post, I now know what you are doing wrong: You checked the
"Read INI File" option withhout reading the documentation... Yes, I know docs are
boring, but if you have trouble they are sometimes worth reading :-)
Please read the details about this option on page 16/17 of the Mac Read Me:

Read INI File
Checking this item will disable all other settings except for those in the "Scene"
pane. All file preferences  will be read from the INI file with the scene file's
name. E.g. for the scene file "BlueBox.POV", an INI  file named "BlueBox.INI" will be
looked for and read, if it is in the scene file's folder.


As it says, only if you *have* an INI file you can use this option, but as you can
see from the file prefs dialog as well as from the Mac Read Me and the POV-Ray 3.1
User Documentation, you can make all settings with the dialog. The INI file option is
just to allow easy use of other platform POV-Ray scene file settings which only have
INI files.


   Thorsten


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