Peter Popov wrote:

> On 20 Oct 1999 10:49:11 -0400, Nieminen Juha
> <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote:
>
> >  I was trying to make a pov script which could create its own .df3 file.
> >However, this seems to be impossible since for some reason povray refuses
> >to write the value 0 to the file. Every other value (1-255) can be written
> >but not 0.
> >  What's going on here? Is it a bug or an intentional feature?
>
> It's a limitation of the function used (fprintf()?). I hit this wall
> about a year ago and thankfully PoD made his tga2df3 utility just in
> time.
>
> The file I/O directives were designed to work with ASCII files -- ini,
> pov, inc, txt etc. to help carry data between frames, change ini
> settings etc. You know that in an ASCII file EOF is '\0' so you see
> how the limitation of fprintf() could easily have been overseen by the
> Team.

Actually, an EOF is -1, which is different. Or for an old-fashioned text file,
Ctrl-Z is the end of file marker.

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