Is there any way to call Pov-ray (windows) from the command line with an
output file
name with spaces in? I'm trying to do the following

C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\bin\pvengine.exe /RENDER
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit\Example3.pov" +H200
+W200 +FN +oC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit /NR /EXIT

I've tried putting the path in single quotes, I've tried double quotes.
Neither works. Without quotes I get a "program.png"
in the root dir of C and I can't find anything on this in the help file.

Thanks
Gail
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:40:44 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote:
>C:\Program Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5\bin\pvengine.exe /RENDER
>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit\Example3.pov" +H200
>+W200 +FN +oC:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit /NR /EXIT

try replace whole +o statement with

Output_File_Name="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit"

ABX

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> try replace whole +o statement with
>
> Output_File_Name="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit"

Without trying that I must say that I don't believe you can use the INI
keywords on a command line prompt.  One never can tell until one tries
though  :-)

That program.png is just the failed attempt at making a c:\program (files)
render I guess.
Have you tried the shortened naming method, Gail?
+oC:\Progra~1\Micros~1\VB98\TexEdit
The first six characters then a tilde ~ and whatever number needed (Might be
several Microsoft folders).

bob h

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On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:02:55 -0600, "bob h" <omn### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Without trying that I must say that I don't believe you can use the INI
> keywords on a command line prompt.  One never can tell until one tries
> though  :-)

I have tested this with command box, but I remember I've used it with command
line. But it looks like undocumented feature becouse documentation at the end of
5.1.1 says: "Almost all + or - switches have an equivalent option which can be
used in an INI file".

> Have you tried the shortened naming method, Gail?
> +oC:\Progra~1\Micros~1\VB98\TexEdit

AFAIK it can fail - for example if you have Microsoft Office folder created
earlier then Microsoft Visual Studio folder.

ABX

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bob h wrote in message <3c62a549@news.povray.org>...

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>Have you tried the shortened naming method, Gail?
>+oC:\Progra~1\Micros~1\VB98\TexEdit
>The first six characters then a tilde ~ and whatever number needed (Might
be
>several Microsoft folders).

Can't do that as the entire command line is generated by VB code depending
on where povray is installed and where the application is question is
installed.
As far as I can tell VB can't give me the shortened path.

Gail
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Can't do that as the entire command line is generated by VB code depending
> on where povray is installed and where the application is question is
> installed.
> As far as I can tell VB can't give me the shortened path.

Try parsing the string, stripping out spaces (and dots; I think short
folder names ignore dots), then
#if(strlen(Path)>8)
  #declare Path=concat(substr(Path,0,6),"~1")
#end
Well, more or less. Needs to be done for each folder name, AND you need
to change the number depending on the creation date of the folder and
all similar folders. Heesh.

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> Output_File_Name="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98\TexEdit"
>

That works. Thanks very much

Gail
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"Grey Knight" <s16### [at] namtarqubacuk> wrote in message
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> Try parsing the string, stripping out spaces (and dots; I think short
> folder names ignore dots), then
> #if(strlen(Path)>8)
>   #declare Path=concat(substr(Path,0,6),"~1")
> #end
> Well, more or less. Needs to be done for each folder name, AND you need
> to change the number depending on the creation date of the folder and
> all similar folders. Heesh.
>

A little off topic.

The short path can be discovered using windows API calls

Declare Function GetShortPathName Lib "kernel32" _
      Alias "GetShortPathNameA" (ByVal lpszLongPath As String, _
      ByVal lpszShortPath As String, ByVal cchBuffer As Long) As Long


Gail

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