In article <3D7E15B2.BC810596@bbsrc.ac.uk> , Simon Andrews 
<sim### [at] bbsrcacuk>  wrote:

> What I've found is that povray, when called with *any* command line
> switches (including +gafile), will silently die if the DISPLAY
> environment variable is not set (which it isn't in a CGI script).  If I
> manually set that variable to some arbitrary number (which isn't used),
> then povray suddenly bursts back into life, and does all of its
> processing as expected.  Interestingly povray will work without this
> variable if you don't call it with any switches at all.

Because it supports X?  That is, it cannot know you don't want the preview
until _all_ options have been parsed.  That includes those in INI files,
which could just as well turn preview on also you turned it off on the
command line...

    Thorsten

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