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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: Are POV-Ray for Windows 3.5 Beta "Help-Files" online somewhere?
Date: 13 Oct 2001 06:08:42
Message: <3bc812aa@news.povray.org>
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> What's worse, the POV-Team has seen to it that I can't run the latest
> version of POV-Ray without also installing a certain buggy, high
> security risk, grossly bloated, 64 Meg (when still compressed),
> "web-browser" package.
Rubbish. Firstly, there's nothing stopping you running POV without using
HTML Help. You just can't use the built-in docs.
Secondly, the 'latest version' of POV-Ray is 3.1g. If you don't like the
way we've released the beta, you are welcome to a full refund. You know
where to go to get it.
-- Chris
PS WRT your comments about WinHelp still being a valid alternative, you
are completely wrong. You have no idea about help authoring or the hassle
that WinHelp is to work with, plus all the major limitations and huge bugs
that are still in it, even after more than ten years.
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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: Are POV-Ray for Windows 3.5 Beta "Help-Files" online somewhere?
Date: 13 Oct 2001 06:08:44
Message: <3bc812ac@news.povray.org>
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> Well, Microsoft made it that way. They dropped support for their old
> .hlp format ages ago, and their HTML help format requires IE4.0 and
Actually, it will work with IE 3, but some of the help file features
won't function correctly ... this is why I suggest IE4.
-- Chris
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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: Are POV-Ray for Windows 3.5 Beta "Help-Files" onlinesomewhere?
Date: 13 Oct 2001 06:08:45
Message: <3bc812ad@news.povray.org>
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> someone doesn't like a certain aspect of POV, these comments always
> surface. I've always considered them to be petty, and in poor taste.
No, 'poor taste' is a user whining about a beta of a free software
program that the developers spend thousands of hours making not having
a help format that HE personally prefers, especially in light of the
fact that most users seem to think that the HTML Help version of the
docs is a significant improvement on the WinHelp version of 3.1g.
> I *WANT* to use POV-Ray for Windows version 3.5 (or higher).
No-one is stopping you. Just use the online docs.
> I've been led to believe that this will only be "generic" POV-Ray help
By who ?
-- Chris
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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Are POV-Ray for Windows 3.5 Beta "Help-Files" online somewhere?
Date: 13 Oct 2001 06:14:10
Message: <3bc813f2@news.povray.org>
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Perhaps you will volunteer to make a winhelp version of the documentation
so that people can use it as an alternative to the html help? This way you
can do something to the problem instead of just ranting about it.
--
#macro N(D,I)#if(I<6)cylinder{M()#local D[I]=div(D[I],104);M().5,2pigment{
rgb M()}}N(D,(D[I]>99?I:I+1))#end#end#macro M()<mod(D[I],13)-6,mod(div(D[I
],13),8)-3,10>#end blob{N(array[6]{11117333955,
7382340,3358,3900569407,970,4254934330},0)}// - Warp -
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