This directory contains version 3.1e of POV-Ray for Windows. You require
Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 3.5x/4.0 to run POV-Ray for Windows.

povwin3.exe is a self-installing executable. Just run it from Windows.
There is no need to to put it into a temporary directory.

In the 3.1e-1/ directory is the same installation as found in the above
povwin3.exe file, but split into parts. MAKE SURE you read the README
file there before downloading !

For those who want the source code, it's in povwin_s.zip. Note that the
source code is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED. Source code is not needed if you
just want to run POV-Ray on an Intel Win32 system.

NOTE! The source code is still at v3.1a. It's not the source for 3.1e.

The file pve-31up.exe contains the executable and two DLL's. These are
the only files that changed between v3.1 and v3.1e. If you have any
pre-3.1e version of POVWIN *3.1*, you can run this EXE and it will
self-install. Note that this will NOT work with pre-3.1 versions of
POVWIN!

The file pve-vc6.zip contains a Visual C++ v6 compile of PVENGINE.EXE.
Under most circumstances, this compile is noticably faster than the
Watcom compile provided in the standard distribution, as the expense of
slight less stability. THIS FILE IS USELESS UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAVE V3.1E
INSTALLED! If you haven't installed 3.1e, do so before installing this.

NOTE: on some older processors (original Pentium's for example), the VC6
compile might even be slower. The VC6 version gets most of its speedups
from using P2-specific optimizations.