I have now removed the 'hack' and applied the 'proper' fix.
Thanks to David Sharp for sending me the patched tokenize.c source.

Stu. www.sgib.co.uk


"Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote in message
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>
> Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote...
> >   I think he said: "This is an inelegant way to go about it, but arf".
> >
> >   Shouldn't the povray code be elegant, well made, high-quality,
> > easy-to-understand, portable, modular and in any sense almost perfect?
> > Is it good to content to solutions that are more a 'hack' than a real
> > fix?
>
> Yes, but for a temporary fix so that things work at least closer to the
way
> they should, it is OK.  Neither MegaPov nor the official version will use
> this hack, but if DOS people want to use it for now, they can.
>
> Be aware that an elegant solution does exist, though:  just open the file
> for binary read mode instead of text read mode.  This fixes basically all
> CRLF problems.
>
> -Nathan
>
>

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