William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> The more tangled part is what would a command set supporting directories
> look like.

I don't use any of the shellout commands, but I would imagine it would just be a
call to the "DOS" to create the specified directory.
mkdir "newDirectory"

#CreateDirectory "newDirectory"

The only bell-and-whistle thing I could envision would be opening a file for
writing in a subdirectory that doesn't yet exist, and automagically creating the
necessary directory branches for the file.  Probably wisest to purposefully
enable this feature to guard against simple typographical errors.

> Then we'd have the implementation of those commands,

I'm guessing you mean the actual POV-Ray source code

> documentation and training of users.

Which would be --- 3 or 4 lines of text?  :D
I mean, I know that packages of food come with instructions nowadays, "1. tear
open package 2. remove contents 3. eat" but I'm pretty sure most of it ought to
be "self-evident".

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