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28 Jul 2024 10:18:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: To the Unix gurus !  
From: Yann Remond
Date: 24 Jul 2002 03:28:24
Message: <3D3E5718.580CDDB7@imag.fr>
Steve wrote:
> 
(...)
> Open your Xterm like this:
> 
> xterm -e tail -f some.file.to.be.read
> 
> And start POV something like this:
> 
> povray -whatever -option -All_File=some.file.to.be.read

I think this will work only if some.file.to.be.read is a FIFO (otherwise
tail will end because the file is empty).

so first do :

mknod some.file.to.be.read p

and this should work.

Yann
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Yann Remond (mailto:Yan### [at] imagfr)


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