Your work-around is pretty neat Ingo, though all of these are probably
the shortest lived work-arounds in history. Guess we'll never see Rons.


ingo wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> --
> Met dank aan de muze met het glazen oog.

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