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9 Aug 2024 21:13:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bug confirmation request: Povray and MegaPov for windows crash when #reading garbage  
From: Marc Schimmler
Date: 9 May 2000 05:50:20
Message: <3917DF5B.8516D6B9@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   Please confirm that this is a bug:
> 
>   Make a file (for example trash.txt) that contains something not readable
> by the #read command, for example just:
> 
> @
> 
>   Then make a scene file which tries to read that, for example:
> 
> #fopen inFile "trash.txt" read
> #read(inFile, Trash)
> 
>   Render this. Povray for windows, as well as megapov for windows will both
> crash.
>   Does this happen to anyone else?
> 
>   Neither of the Unix versions crashes in this situation, so it seems to
> be a windows-specific problem.
> 

SGI IRIX 6.5 custom compile

error message:
test.read:1: error: float, vector, or string literal expected but @
found instead.

Aborted normally

Marc


-- 
Marc Schimmler


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