Checking on this here, using a testcmd.ini I already had, I'm seeing POV go 
unresponsive.

I sure thought this feature was fixed up okay, since I remember being able 
to use it correctly in 3.6 before. Only thing I remember being discussed was 
the usage of quotes or not. Seems the various versions of Windows handled it 
differently; now I'm using XP HE SP2, if that makes any difference. 
Unfortunately, I didn't check on this after the last release of POV-Ray so I 
don't know if it changed something.

With any luck something will be figured out by someone. Guess I'll be trying 
other things to see what happens in the meantime, but I've already tried 
each  Pre and Post, Frame and Scene, Command=cmd.exe /c dir   (or /k) with 
and without quotes around the string. There's a 'POV-Ray is creating another 
process' message and then it stops responding, every time.

BTW, I can't check using version 3.5 yet. I didn't think it could run a file 
without starting the command processor (cmd.exe or command.com) but you seem 
to say it'll run the file test.bat, alone, without it. My cmd.exe appears to 
have been updated by SP2, dated 8/4/2004 and showing a slightly larger file 
size than the previous one.

Bob H.

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