In article <3e81e99e.79161217@news.povray.org>,
 mca### [at] aolcom (S McAvoy) wrote:

> I assume you cannot shell out using SDL.

Correct.


> Could this function be incorporated as a feature request.  

No.
Ok, some more detail: it has been done before, and would be very easy to 
implement, but it was removed from MegaPOV and not considered for the 
official version because it would introduce a security risk, a POV 
script could do literally anything. Also, it would make the script 
dependant on a single system, generally considered a bad thing for 
distribution.

It would sometimes be nice though, and perhaps the security problems 
could be overcome, it could be disabled when security is a problem. A 
better solution might be to switch things around, do your stuff in a 
general purpose scripting language like Ruby and call POV from your 
script.

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