On Thu, 13 May 1999 20:31:57 +0100, "Rick" <kit### [at] dialpipexcom>
wrote:

>not yet, to my knowledge, I am waitiong for a new version, as for some reson
>it give me one of those usless error messages when i try to run it on mine,
>even when i swap dll files about..

  Only attempt this if you are a programmer-type or at least
experienced with using hex editors. I'd suggest making copies of both
the Superpatch and UVPov executables before proceeding to tinker with
them. This method worked for me and I can successfully use both
patched versions with POV-Ray for Windows v3.1e.

(originally posted in povray.general)
on 04 May 1999 11:12AM PST "Tim Riley" <tri### [at] itsbldrdocgov> wrote:
>At first, I thought I could live without the editor in either the Superpatch
>version or Nathan Kopp's UV version, but I got tired of having to clear the
>"Incorrect DLL version" error message every time I fired either one up. I
>figured that there was a better way than the batch file method; here it is:
>
>* In your POV directory, create a sub-directory named "bun".
>* Place all files related to Superpatch (the executable, which I re-named
>  spengine.exe to eliminate confusion, cmax101.dll, the three i_*.dll files),
>  and/or UVPov (the executable).
>* Put an old version of cmedit.dll (from version 3.1d or earlier) in "bun".
>* Using an hex editor (I used UltraEdit) open up each of the executables
>  and search for the first instance of the string "bin". It occurs in the
>  string "bun\cmedit.dll". In the Superpatch executable, it's located at
>  location 0xc4f96, in UVPov it's at 0xbd83e.
>* Change "bin" to "bun" (make sure you're doing this in hex mode).
>
>That's it. Make sure your shortcuts point to the new location of the
>executables. All three versions can now co-exist.
>
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-- 
Alan
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