"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> "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.

I wondered how pov is doing that ...

> 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...

Yes, my quotas kicked in, and I had to remove all unfinished PNGs I
had there...
But when relauching the animation with +c it then said, that the
tmp-file was there but not the actual half-ready picture ... So I found out
now ...

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