Peter Popov wrote:

> >Have you had no luck getting x-povray to display remotely?  That would
> >strike me as a better solution, since X is designed to function over
> >networks.
> 
> I don't want to install X, not until I've found a free win32 X server
> supporting OpenGL/Direct3D (if there's such a beast anyway)

Now it's making sense...
 
> >I've gotten x-povray to display over rsh, but I haven't had
> >the need to try ssh (trusted network; I can reach all four machines and
> >the hub from where I'm sitting).  I can check it out on my end.
> 
> does x-povray have a text-only output option? If so, I think ssh will
> handle it just fine (it manages X11 packets quite well). Still, will
> you please try it? TIA

The console version has an "ASCII art" output option.  If you don't need
that, then the -d switch ought to work to turn off display.

-Mark Gordon

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