"nLewis" <noa### [at] writemecom> wrote in message
news:3c0411df@news.povray.org...
> It's so simple, it can be done with a little patch if anyone wants to -
> How about having a command for POV to print out the post-preprocessed
file -
> that is, the parsed file - so that if you have tons of macros and while's
> and if's you can generate a parsed file with a single command and quickly
> render an animation without re-parsing?
> Or just saving time?
> Or using the same file with minor changes?
> Or making a POV X.X scene backwards compatible easily? (If it has
functions
> like trace())
> Or just for fun?
> this must be pretty easy to implement.
>
> may your beard grow long and prosper,
> Noam Lewis.

AFAIK, you can do this with the preprocessor from gcc.  Unfortunately, I
don't remember how :)

...Chambers

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