Hello, folks,

I would like to know this: is it possible in general to install POV-Ray 3.1
and 3.5 on the same Windows-98-machine without de-stabilizing the system
and / or one of the POV-Ray versions?

Why should I do that? There are some additional programs like texture
viewers and such things out there and some of them are written for 3.1 and

after mailing the developers and getting the answer that they do not work
under 3.5 but for sure they work well under 3.1 I have to believe them.

I have just re-installed my Windows about a week ago, tooks more than a day
:-(, and are not willing at this moment to harm the system in any way ;-)



opposite.

Thanks for your help

Rm

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I had both on my machine for quite some time.  I left both icons on the
desktop and clicked whichever one I wanted.

Cheers!

Chip Shults
My robotics, space and CGI web page - http://home.cfl.rr.com/aichip

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In article <web.3f12e3294b8788322c6cac2e0@news.povray.org> , "Steely" 
<Rob### [at] hamburgde> wrote:

> I would like to know this: is it possible in general to install POV-Ray 3.1
> and 3.5 on the same Windows-98-machine without de-stabilizing the system
> and / or one of the POV-Ray versions?

Of course installing a properly written application like POV-Ray will never
destabilize your system.  Also applications made available by certain
companies, most notably Microsoft, do destabilize Windows (because they hack
their own system to work), this does not imply other applications will or
even can do so at all.

BTW, your question is actually answered on the download page at
<http://www.povray.org/download/>:

>>Version 3.5 is a major upgrade from version 3.1 and we recommend all users who
have a 3.1 version available for their platform upgrade to 3.5. Note that
some 3.1 scenes that used features marked as 'experimental' may not render
in version 3.5. If you have any such scene files we recommend that you keep
your copy of version 3.1 installed.<<

    Thorsten

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Thanks to both!

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

>Of course installing a properly written application like POV-Ray will never
>destabilize your system.





Rm

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Thorsten has been rather discussion-friendly
for quiet some time now. I like the change. I don't
know the reason for it, might be that he realized
that there are much more newbies loose than
he hoped for ;-) (just kidding Thorsten, but it
has become rather pleasant reading your posts,
as opposed to the earlier "very short" ones).

Regards,
Tim

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Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights

> Thanks to both!
>
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>
> >Of course installing a properly written application like POV-Ray will
never
> >destabilize your system.
>

>

>
> Rm
>


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In article <3f134eb3@news.povray.org> , "Tim Nikias v2.0" 
<tim### [at] gmxde> wrote:

> Thorsten has been rather discussion-friendly
> for quiet some time now. I like the change. I don't
> know the reason for it, might be that he realized
> that there are much more newbies loose than
> he hoped for ;-) (just kidding Thorsten, but it
> has become rather pleasant reading your posts,
> as opposed to the earlier "very short" ones).

It only has to do with the fact that I have slightly more time for POV-Ray
at the moment. Thus my replies are longer when possible...

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

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> It only has to do with the fact that I have slightly more time for POV-Ray
> at the moment. Thus my replies are longer when possible...

And thats a good thing. One couldn't always figure if
you were just being rude or having no time. At some
point I figured you just did have no time, but still,
some short sentences really looked like you were pissed
off... :-)

But I think we've come to expect your short answers,
so that shouldn't be a problem anymore, eh?

Ah well, we're getting slightly off-topic here...

Regards,
Tim

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Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights


>
> > Thorsten has been rather discussion-friendly
> > for quiet some time now. I like the change. I don't
> > know the reason for it, might be that he realized
> > that there are much more newbies loose than
> > he hoped for ;-) (just kidding Thorsten, but it
> > has become rather pleasant reading your posts,
> > as opposed to the earlier "very short" ones).
>
> It only has to do with the fact that I have slightly more time for POV-Ray
> at the moment. Thus my replies are longer when possible...
>
>     Thorsten
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
> Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org


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