In fact, while we're at it, it might not be a bad idea to implement (in the DOS
version) a means of controlling the rows and cols that the display screen uses.
For programs that call POV-Ray as a child process, the ability to specify that
it display itself in x cols and y rows (starting at col x row y) wouldn't be a
bad feature.
On the other hand, since the program's purpose is to create images as opposed to
doing cool things with text, I don't know of what use these features would be.

Nieminen Mika wrote:

>   Can I request a very little and easy-to-code feature for the DOS version
> of the next povray version?
>   It should be nice that it (the DOS version) looked how many rows are
> available when printing text. I usually use a 50-rows mode (instead of
> the usual 25-rows) in DOS, but povray only uses the first 25 rows. It should
> be nice if it would use all the 50 rows (there would be more info to read
> since you can't scroll the text while povray is raytracing).
>   The povhelp program looks for the number of rows and that's great (povhelp
> is one of the best programs I know (after povray itself, of course :) ).
>
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>                                                               - Warp. -

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