POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : command-line /Render option : Re: command-line /Render option Server Time
30 Jul 2024 10:18:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: command-line /Render option  
From: Chris Cason
Date: 15 Apr 2009 02:05:02
Message: <49e5790e$1@news.povray.org>
Chris B wrote:
> Actually /RENDER seems to work in both cases on Windows, but the help says 
> it's Windows only. So I guess I just need to use this always on Windows and 
> +I for all other platforms. I don't have other platforms to test on, so if 
> anyone's done this and can confirm or refute my conclusion that would be 

/RENDER is special because it has the ability to send a message to an existing
instance of POVWIN and ask it to start a new render. This is platform-specific
functionality not implied in the +I switch.

-- Chris


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