Uwe Zimmermann wrote:
> 
> Hej all!
> 
> Another feature of the Windows version 3.1e of PovRay (WinNT 4 sp3) :
> Long filenames for render scenes are pretty well accepted by the
> pvengine but when it comes to animation rendering of such files, the
> output filename is truncated in the old-fashionned 8.3 notation to a
> length of only 8-x characters where x represents the number of digits
> to
> display the highest frame number - is this really neccessary, a bug or a
> feature?
> 
> Uwe.

 It would be my guess that it is a hold over from Pov v2.2 where the animation
feature was first introduced and the file naming conventions were established.
Pov v2.2 was a dos command line version proior to the later windows versions.
I cannot however say how difficult it would be to change this behavior or if
it can be done at all. Long file names are a platform specific feature while
the naming convention for the animaiton output is universal on all platforms
so is maintained in the core of the programming code.

  Ken is guessing about all of this by the way.


-- 
Ken Tyler

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