If something in DOS doesn't like the non-8.3 file name it doesn't "pass go",
at least nothing I've ever seen has any recognition of a file like
foobar~1.tga, so it can cause trouble.
Windows version would be fine like that though  ;-)  if you could surpass the
naming limit in POV.

Bob

"Nathan Kopp" <Nat### [at] Koppcom> wrote in message
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|
| DEPerere <per### [at] infomaniakch> wrote...
| >
| > I suppose that if you have an animation of "Final_Frame=999", your name
| > should be of 3 letters max. At the end of the calculation of the frames,
| > you'll have a serial of frame with 6 characters and another serial with
| > those same characters and ending by "PP", also 8 characters.
|
| I hadn't thought of the truncation that
| occurs because of the 8 character limit in relation to animation files.  Any
| suggestions?  Could we forget about the 8-character limit (and simply append
| the "_PP" without truncating), or would that cause big problems for DOS?  Is
| there a better solution?

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