On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:32:46 -0600, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote:

>In article <36b0a016.0@news.povray.org> , par### [at] my-dejanewscom (Ron 
>Parker) wrote:
>
>> Why is this even necessary?  Are network file systems
>> like NFS or SMB too cumbersome?  If you're going to
>> have to run an HTTP server on the master machine
>> anyway, why not run a more lightweight custom protocol
>> better suited to providing the needed information?  You
>> might even consider a protocol that can just send the
>> entire preparsed frame and global settings to each client
>> rather than duplicating the parsing effort.
>

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.

Later,

Glen Berry

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