"Dave Matthews" <dav### [at] mnwestedu> wrote:
> When I create a file on my Mac, whether using MegaPOV or POVRay (at least I
> think I also get them from the POVRay for Mac version -- all the examples
> I'm looking at now come from MegaPOV), when I bring the file up in my
> POVRay for Windows editor, I get little rectangular boxes at the end of
> some, but not all, lines.
>
> They have no effect on the parsing of the scene file, and I'm assuming
> they're some sort of end-of-line symbol or something, but, since many lines
> lack them entirely, while some others have a string of six or seven of
> these, I'm just curious what they're from.

Different operating systems use different end-of-line conventions, but the
POV parser copes with them all. The editor may get confused though. There
are many  free programs that can do the end-of-line conversion for you.

Unix/Linux uses control-J (linefeed), Mac uses control-M (carriage return),
and the PC uses control-M followed by control-J.

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