"Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> wrote in message
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> "Trevor Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> > Are you using windows or do you want it to be non-platform specific?
> >
>
> Ideally NPS (which I could implement via perl). Is there anyway to get POV
to
> return today's date as a string - it would be a nice feature for date/time
> stamping images anyway...
>
> Windows is what I use - the problems I have hit.
>
> 1. "date" requires a prompt from me ("Enter new date:") (although not at
work,
> since there's a /t option). I've got around this by creating a file, and
then
> piping a dir list of the file to another file, which then includes today's
date.
>
> 2. POV won't read a string unless it is enclosed in quotes, so I've got no
way
> of parsing the file in POV and I can't think of a batch command that will
help
> quote strings/lines in a file....
>
>


Actually that was along the lines I was thinking, but I guess you haven't
found a way to make it work yet and I can't think of anything else yet. Back
to the drawing board.

-tgq

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