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  Re: A simple request...  
From: clipka
Date: 17 Dec 2013 09:36:09
Message: <52b06159$1@news.povray.org>
Am 17.12.2013 13:36, schrieb David Given:
> On 17/12/13 08:35, clipka wrote:
> [...]
>> A quick glance at the code indicates that someone had already thought of
>> this, and all the necessary stuff seems to be there already, except that
>> it hasn't been hooked up to a command line option or ini file setting
>> yet. Two lines of code should get us going.
>
> Is there a way to specify the location? There's value in having the
> pov-state file written to a different directory to the output file ---
> for example, a local drive rather than a network drive in the OP's case.
> It would then be trivial to extend to 'write nowhere'.

As I said, the "write nowhere" feature is already there behind the 
curtains, it's just not exposed via a command line switch yet. 
Implementing a way to write to a different directory would need more effort.


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