Ok. now i know what you mean, but I can't solve it. I've never had any use for
it. never heard of any such either.



Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> Eh, no.
>     What happened was due to my stupidity and the way POVRAY installs. I
> installed 3.1 and saw that it didn't use the old insert file. So I deleted
> it and reinstalled my old version. Not making backups. It over wrote my
> insert file that I had worked on for years. So I reinstalled 3.1 so I could
> use macro and have been trying to rebuild an insert menu.
>     Now I have found a copy of my insert file which I carefully saved on a
> different machine then promptly forgot. I want to convert it into separate
> text files in proper directories to use in 3.1
> 
>     Hope that makes more sense....
> 
> Spider <spi### [at] bahnhofse> wrote in message
> news:372CB0B6.E4A16B79@bahnhof.se...
> > I'm not sure I understand what you mean..
> > there is a bug in POV 3.1e for windows that is in the SaveAs. It
> overwrites the
> > old and the new file at the same time.
> > insert file, meaning ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Bill DeWitt wrote:
> > >
> > > This might be the right place to post this question.
> > >
> > > I have been just real reluctant to even mess with POVRAY since it wiped
> out
> > > my last insert file and then went to the new text file format. When it
> came
> > > out there was talk about a utility to convert the old file into the new
> > > format, has anyone done this?
> >
> > --
> > file://Spider    --
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> > And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please
> > Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger
> > Everything under the gun
> > --"Sisters Of Mercy" -- "Under The Gun"

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And the meek'll inherit what they damn well please
	Get ahead, go figure, go ahead and pull the trigger
		Everything under the gun
			--"Sisters Of Mercy" -- "Under The Gun"

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