Thanks Bob,

In the meanwhile I found an other way to get both versions running. I've Put
all the patches in a separate directory (D:\POV-Ray-Patch) with a complete
copy of the subdirectory's bin, help,ini,insertmenu,renderer. Then I use a
batchfile to start a patch, before that the batchfile changes the registry
setting. For this I use an utility REG.EXE from
http://www.mindspring.com/~dgthomas

Here is the (ugly) batchfile:
reg -set
HKLM\Software\POV-Ray\CurrentVersion\Windows\Home="D:\POV-Ray-Patch"
reg -set HKLM\Software\POV-Ray\v3.1\Windows\Home="D:\POV-Ray-Patch"
D:\POV-Ray-Patch\bin\uvpov.exe
reg -set HKLM\Software\POV-Ray\CurrentVersion\Windows\Home="D:\POV-Ray"
reg -set HKLM\Software\POV-Ray\v3.1\Windows\Home="D:\POV-Ray"

after closing uvpov the registry is changed back.

ingo

Bob Hughes heeft geschreven in bericht <36FF2858.13F820B2@aol.com>...
>The following works in Win95 anyway, so should be pretty much the same
>for 98 or NT I would think. Only a suggested possibility here.
>Make a sub-folder for the patch or patches in the bin folder, I used
>Photon and Super for names....
> snip

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