Cool .. thanks. Works like a charm!

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Paul Vanukoff
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Steve Martin wrote in message <3872ADC9.FD147AE0@usit.net>...

>This sounds like a typical use of the "detached" process. To get the
>render to proceed "in the background" (actually, as a separate
>process detached from the controlling terminal), precede your
>POV-Ray invocation with the word "nohup" and follow it with
>" > /dev/null &", as in the following example:
>
>nohup s-povray +Iinput.pov > /dev/null &
>
>The "nohup" tells Linux to continue the process even after
>the original login process terminates (i.e. after you log
>off), the "> /dev/null" redirects standard-output to a
>null file so it doesn't clutter up the terminal, and the
>trailing "&" (ampersand) causes the process to detach from
>the terminal from which you start it, running as a
>separate process. Of course, this will remove the "progress
>indication" you were wanting, as it does not output to the
>terminal during this time, but it will run the render in
>the background.
>
>Hope this helps.

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