hi,

=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=b6rg_=22Yadgar=22_Bleimann?= <yaz### [at] gmxde> wrote:
> On 04.04.20 11:26, jr wrote:
> > ...
> Did I understand you correctly so far that you want me to set up the
> https://gnadlib.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/fahrrad/webspace in a way that
> POV-Ray immediately can access the original data files on the server
> (remote file access in POV-Ray? Must be a new feature in 3.7 which
> escaped my attention until now...) and process them?

no.  as Bald Eagle pointed out, you misunderstood (completely).

the website I referred to is "povearth.de".  and Bald Eagle's reply provides a
fine summary of what would be expected.


> This probably would not be possible, as 2 TB additional webspace is at
> the upper limit I can afford - and the original files come as *.zip from
> the NASA server...

in an earlier post you wrote "as a Linux user".  that gives you the opportunity
to use (significantly) better compression for the data than zip achieves; I'd
"re-package" the zipped data using either 'gzip(1)' or, better, 'xz(1)'.  (for
instance, I have a VRML ASCII data file which, using xz, crunched from just over
1G to just under 10M)

also, the 'sed' command features an '-i' option switch which allows you to
update the file, no need to make intermediate copies; you can supply multiple
expressions ('-e'), too.


regards, jr.

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