Cliff Bowman wrote in message <3795c553.91114856@news.povray.org>...
>I've a silly little animation that I tweak every now and then and
>re-render. Because the PC's I use often have to be stopped so that
>they can do some "proper work" I have resorted to numerous techniques
>to re-start the rendering at the appropriate point (especially since
>the person re-starting the rende risn't always me - but sometimes the
>wife).

[...]

Hmm, I don't use ini files (coz I use POV on the Mac), but...

can an ini file read/write a file from disk and set the start frame
based on the contents?

Could you write a simple DOS batch job that checks these things and sets
a file to be read by the ini with the appropriate settings?

Have Fun
Martin
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