clipka <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > You can already write byte values as #write(handle,chr(N)).

> .... no, you can't. Not reliably, that is. Ever tried? There's no way to get POV
> to #write a 0x00.

  The problem is that in C/C++ a string is ended with 0x00, and #write
does nothing else than output strings (rather than an array of bytes).

  The solution to that problem would be rather simple: Make it output
the array of bytes represented by the parameter, rather than writing it
as a string.

  (OTOH I don't know how povray internally handles string identifiers.
If it handles them as arrays of chars, with a separate length variable,
then there would be no problem.)

  But the proposed changes might be a better approach anyways.

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                                                          - Warp

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