POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : v3.8 help file update : Re: v3.8 help file update Server Time
26 Apr 2024 08:49:22 EDT (-0400)
  Re: v3.8 help file update  
From: clipka
Date: 3 Nov 2018 18:49:31
Message: <5bde25fb$1@news.povray.org>
Am 03.11.2018 um 17:49 schrieb Kenneth:

> The question arises as to why this newer help file was 'blocked', when, for
> example, 3.7.1 beta 9's file didn't have that bothersome attribute, IIRC. I'm
> wondering if a particular Windows 7/Microsoft update over the past couple of
> years may have introduced a more restrictive (or more 'robust'?) protection
> scheme for files downloaded from the internet.
> 
> Or could it be a by-product of the help-file build process, possibly due to a
> (newer?)software tool that was used to create it?

The difference is in how the help file got onto your computer.

With the betas, it was an installer that you downloaded, not the help 
file itself, and - from the perspective of the operating system - the 
installer "created" the help file on your computer.


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