Unless I'm very mistaken it came with RH5.2.  It's probably not part of
the basic install, but I'm 99.44% sure it's available as an RPM.

On Linux, you can always go to a different virtual console by typing
ALT-Fx (between 1 and 8, 7 being reserver for X), start your povray from
there and go back to your previous console and resume what you were
doing.

Steve Martin wrote:
> 
> > Another and IMO easier way would be to use the package screen.
> >
> > screen -S povray
> > will create a new 'screen' called 'povray' this is just another shell
> > basically, in here you start the render, or whatever you want, then
> > press ctrl+a,d to jump away from that screen.
> > this can afterwards be resumed(to watch output and other things) by
> > using screen -r povray
> > screen is a rather handy lil' prog that i tend to use a lot (either
> > local or remote computers)
> 
> Hmmm... this does sound handy, and sounds like something I wish
> I had on our SCO machine at work (into which I dial occasionally).
> However, I had never heard of that. Just checked, and apparently
> this is not something that's a default part of Linux (at least,
> not RH6). You know the old saying... "go with what you know best". :)

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Francois Labreque wrote:
> 
> Unless I'm very mistaken it came with RH5.2.  It's probably not part of
> the basic install, but I'm 99.44% sure it's available as an RPM.
> 
> On Linux, you can always go to a different virtual console by typing
> ALT-Fx (between 1 and 8, 7 being reserver for X), start your povray from
> there and go back to your previous console and resume what you were
> doing.

Not on a telnet connection, wich was what startedd this thread :)

screen -S povray
nice --adjustment=15 s-povray myini.ini
ctrl+a,d
:)

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