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?

Can't you say
*.ini: Output_File_Name=longname
and have it spit out longname0001.
I seem to recall doing that by accident once.

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