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On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:24:53 -0400, Warp wrote:
> andrel <a_l### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
>> It was a very powerful concept, e,g, if it was still alive today we
>> could easily implement a POV: device such that copying a file into that
>> device would render that file.
>
> AFAIK in the current MacOS X you can create folder-specific scripts
> which are automatically run on files which are copied to that folder
> (and maybe on some other events as well). For example some people use
> the feature to automatically create thumbnail versions of images when
> those images are copied to a certain folder. I assume you could easily
> achieve that povray-rendering feature as well, if you wanted.
Hmmm, I wonder how hard it would be to implement this in *nix using FUSE?
I've seen some interesting things implemented as FUSE filesystems, like
MP3 file ID3 tag editors...
Jim
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