POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : *.tpn ? : Re: *.tpn ? Server Time
6 Aug 2024 04:16:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: *.tpn ?  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 24 May 2002 09:53:37
Message: <3cee45e1$1@news.povray.org>
"Jan Walzer" <jan### [at] lzernet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3cee440d@news.povray.org...
> Then let it answer the Linux/Unix guys ...
> ... but I found it out myself ...
> it seems to be a temporary PNG-file ...

Ah, then I do actually know what it is and where it comes from!

> I'm rendering some animations on a remote machine, and use
> the switches +fn +c +kfi +kff +kc ....

As simply appending data to PNG files isn't possible POV-Ray creates a
backup and then readsthe line from the files it was supposed to continue and
writes them to a new file.  It the continues writing all data to the new
file and deletes the old file.

Did POV-Ray crash or was it interrupted in some way while reading in the
initial part it is supposed to continue?  Usually those files don't stay
until after execution unless something went wrong with the new ".png" file
or POV-Ray was terminated in some unusual way...

    Thorsten


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