Sounds like you also need POV-Ray to start up on it's own. So I guess
that means setting up the Pov file type to be rendered when "run"
somehow. Wish I knew the whole answer myself as it would be
interesting to do.
About Dennis (the hurricane), when I was a kid and lived there near
where you do (Merritt Island and Satellite Beach) it was great to
experience those things but mighty fearful stuff too. I'll never
forget the howling air and turbulent ocean. One time we almost never
got the front door shut after having it open and our neighbors got a
large corrugated pipe slammed into the front of their house. Great
stuff to see, even the "eye", if it weren't for the bad side.

Bob

Bill DeWitt <the### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
news:37c86135@news.povray.org...
> This is what I was thinking I would use. The standard notepad in
Win98 has a
> F5 time stamp that I can automate with one of those shortcut macro
programs.
> Now if I can just figure out how to get it to do that, then run a
specific
> POV file and then change wall papers for me.....
>
>     Looks like we are taking a miss with Dennis, I am a little
> disappointed...
>
> Bob Hughes <inv### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:37c85008@news.povray.org...
> > Use a substr function on the read input. Extract the first two
digits
> > for the hour, next two for minutes.
> >
> > #declare Time=str(01:23:45am)
> > #declare H=substr(Time,0,2)
> > #declare M=substr(Time,2,2)
> > #declare Hours=strval(H)
> > #declare Minutes=strval(M)
> >
> > Something like that anyhow. I'm not sure since I haven't done it,
> > yet....
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > Fabien Mosen <fab### [at] skynetbe> wrote in message
> > news:37C81C13.5C2798B8@skynet.be...
> > > PoD wrote:
> > >
> > > > Er. how about something like 'time > time.txt' in DOS/Windoze
or
> > 'date >
> > > > time.txt' in *n*x.
> > > > It won't be very portable though.
> > >
> > > I tought of that, but, afaik, Pov needs comma-separated data, so
> > > the standard dos time output would be unreadable. (but I may
> > > be wrong...)
> > >
> > > Fabien.
> >
> >
>
>

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