POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.windows: "cannot open output file.": Re: "cannot open output file."

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From: clipka
Date: 14 Apr 2010 08:58:06
Message: <4bc5bbde@news.povray.org>

Am 14.04.2010 05:11, schrieb jm57:
> I am having the same problem.  When I attempt to run POV-Ray from the command
> line the input file will open, but not the output file.
>
> It seems that the output file's name is being incorrectly parsed.  For example,
> if I call pvengine.exe from "C:/Program Files/POV-Ray/bin" and my file to be
> rendered is specified as "C:/user/file.pov", then the Messages tab shows the
> output file name as "C:/Program Files/POV-Ray/bin/C:/user/file.pov" which cannot
> be opened.

Currently, the Windows frontend does not seem to fully support forward 
slashes, failing to recognize "C:/whatever" as an absolute path. If you 
specify "C:\user/file.pov", it should work ok.

I'm already on it - looks like no big deal to fix.

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