Dick Balaska wrote:
> 
> Dudes and/or Dudettes:
> 
> (gosh i hope M$ doesn't send this as poop)
> 
> I am having a problem getting POV to run silent, run deep.
> I have written an animation controller for my humbleNet that spawns POV-Ray.
> On Linux and Windows, i can't get POV to be transparent.
> 
> Linux: s-povray wants svgalib.  Not available. x-povray insists on opening a
> render window, which of course steals focus from where i'm really working
> and
> requires an Xserver.  I've tried -D +D -D0 +D0, but can't get it to not
> display.
> 
> Windows:  I can get POVWin 3.02 to be *pretty* quiet, but i can't get rid of
> the
> splash panel.  It is annoying to lose focus to where i am when POV starts.
> But the
> worst part is (not POV's fault) that when the splash closes, focus returns
> to some
> window other than where i was.  POVDos runs perfectly quiet, but then i'm
> limited
> to EIGHTDOTTHREE FILENAMES.  TunnelHeightField.gif fails to get parsed.
> 
> So, how do i make POV run with no output (except +GAoutput.txt).
> 
> tanx
> 
> dik

The other sure-shot method is to get the Unix source and build with
"make newunix", which produces an executable that isn't capable of
non-ASCII display.

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