POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Feature Request: Binary #write : Re: Feature Request: Binary #write Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:19:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feature Request: Binary #write  
From: clipka
Date: 26 Mar 2009 06:30:01
Message: <web.49cb58de6dca0b6493bfb07f0@news.povray.org>
"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] anti-spamcomcastnet> wrote:
> POV supports encoding and decoding byte values with the
> chr(N) and asc(S) functions in ASCII mode.

It does indeed, but...

> You can already write byte values as #write(handle,chr(N)).

.... no, you can't. Not reliably, that is. Ever tried? There's no way to get POV
to #write a 0x00. Or a 0x0D on windows machines. Or any value > 0x7F, as it
seems.


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