Hi all,

from POV-Ray doc:
Banner: This stream displays the program's sign-on banner, copyright,
contributor's list, and some help screens. It cannot be turned off or directed
to a file because most of this text is displayed before any options or switches
are read.

Even if I admit authors and contributors done excellent work and I'm very
grateful (tnx guys), seeing 300 times a day list of them and I'm starting hate
their names one by one. (a little exaggeration ;) See, list of their names, not
them, clear?

I know, POV-Ray isn't Unix only SW, but one of Unix programming rules fits
perfectly here: Rule of Silence (
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html#id2878450 )

In my humble opinion the banner must be shown only on request, i.e. explicit
switch +B (as help screen is -?/+H).
I think even "POV-Ray finished" info is superfluous, I can see new prompt on my
terminal, so I know it's finished. So "[Parsing...]","[Rendering...]", and
"[Paused...]" announcements, too.

Silence is golden. The ideal would be a set of switches that switched off make
the program completely silent.

And what about you, do you like Banner Text Stream?

Regards
Pietro

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