Uwe Zimmermann wrote in message <3778C768.CCA86469@ele.kth.se>...
>Ken wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>But since DOS is the only platform of all the ones supported by PovRay,
>that I wonder if it really is neccessary to carry on this restriction
>into the far future of raytracing.


One reason to keep this behavior is that both of the animation utilities
that I use only support 8.3 filenames.  Just try getting a program to
alphabetize dummy~1.tga through dumm~99.tga properly!  It would probably be
OK to change this sometime about five years from now, or to make changing
this a selectable option.

Mark

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