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3 May 2024 06:20:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: On new directive to stop after parsing. A near term trick.  
From: Leroy
Date: 15 Apr 2024 13:30:00
Message: <web.661d6361ca6c83fa1dbe6626f712fc00@news.povray.org>
William F Pokorny <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>
>   povray scene.pov -d -p +wt0
>
> Setting the thread count to zero causes POV-Ray to bail before rendering
> with a clean, 0 return code - so long as nothing is otherwise wrong with
> the scene set up.
>
> It means I've got a better way to run parsing test cases and, should
> anyone want to do it, you can use SDL as a sort of scripting language to
> do other stuff.
>
> The trick works too in v3.8 beta 2 and likely all recent, official
> versions.
>
> Bill P.

-d -p +wt0 works on my win3.7 version just put it in the command box and run
Great Trick!


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