I used to play with Megapov @home and wrote some pics, using arrays ...
These pics usually also need a lot of rendering time ..

Now I got access to our SunOS Server at UNIversity (nice machine - 4 CPUs
(for multitaskin') and 1GB-Ram) ...
It is not much faster than my PII-Box (multiusers ...) but I'll use it for
large renderings over weeks ...

I thought I'll use it, _BUT_

I downloaded the SunOS-Version of POV, and tried, but I got Errors for my
used arrays ..

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turing [126] [10:28pm] /home/walzer/povray/povray3/ownscenes>
../povray -Iblobby
.pov -c50 -w320 -h200 +a0.3
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.02.SunOS.gcc
  This is an official version prepared by the POV-Ray Team(tm).  See the
    documentation on how to contact the authors or post a message on
    CompuServe's GO POVRAY Forum.  Also visit http://www.povray.org.
Copyright 1997 POV-Ray Team(tm)
Parsing Options
  Input file: blobby.pov (compatible to version 3.0)
  Remove bounds........On  Split unions........Off
  Library paths:
Output Options
  Image resolution 320 by 200 (rows 1 to 200, columns 1 to 320).
  Output file: blobby.tga, 24 bpp Targa
  Graphic display.....Off
  Mosaic preview......Off
  CPU usage histogram.Off
  Continued trace.....Off  Allow interruption..Off  Pause when done.....Off
  Verbose messages....Off
Tracing Options
  Quality:  9
  Bounding boxes.......On  Bounding threshold: 25
  Light Buffer.........On  Vista Buffer.........On
  Antialiasing.........On  (Method 1, Threshold 0.300, Depth 3, Jitter 1.00)
  Radiosity...........Off
Animation Options
  Clock value....   0.000  (Animation off)
Redirecting Options
  All Streams to console..........On
  Debug Stream to console.........On
  Fatal Stream to console.........On
  Render Stream to console........On
  Statistics Stream to console....On
  Warning Stream to console.......On


Parsing...      <-10, 0, 52>
        color rgb 1
        }

#declare uneek_field=array[ <----ERROR

blobby.pov:52: error: object or directive expected but undeclared identifier
'array' found instead.
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Is it true, that there are no Arrays in the official version ??
Do I have to download the sources of megapov and compile it myself ??? (hope
not)
... or are there some switches that can help me ???

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