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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
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> In article <36b3d4ab.15220878@news.povray.org> , 7no### [at] ezwv com (Glen Berry)
> wrote:
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> > It might come in handy for things such as IMP, where people will be
> > rendering scene files that are stored on a machine accessible by the
> > internet. It might also be nice to be able to output the images to a
> > given URL instead of just to a local file.
>
> However, for a platform independent project it is very hard (impossible?) to get
> network access in any portable way. If you support Sockets and Streams you will
> most likely support most platforms, but not all, that is for sure.
> And as Ron said, NFS (there is surely a client on every platform for it) or
> other network file systems do a much better job than any proprietary interface,
> even it is based on http, ftp or whatever else.
>
> Thorsten
Oh, all these guys having all permissions of the world.
I just try heavily to imagine making my SysOp opening their NFS-Volumes
to the whole world.
There's got to be a more graceful way to commit suicide.
Axel
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