avian wrote:
> Maurice <cel### [at] nospamhotmailcom> wrote:
> 
>>avian wrote:
>>
>>>I get the error ...
>>>
>>>Unable to open output file 'C:/megapov/bin//project/pov/rendered/out.tga'
>>>
>>>Anyone know why this is happening?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Yes. There is a '/' too many between bin and project.
> 
> 
> Well, that's one problem but if you look at the part of the command line
> that say where/what the output file is you'll realize that the current
> working directory (in this case I was in megapov/bin folder) is put in
> front  of the rest of the path.
> 
> 
>>>+O"C:/project/pov/rendered/out.tga"
> 
> 
> gives the error
> 
> 
>>>Unable to open output file 'C:/megapov/bin//project/pov/rendered/out.tga'
> 
> 
>   I've also discovered that it has a problem with any path containing a
> space.  Weather I put it in quotes or not seams to be irrelavent.
> 
> i.e.
> megapov +I"c:/program files/pov-ray for windows
> v3.6/scenes/advanced/ntreal/ntreal.pov"
> 
> causes the error
> 
> unable to open files/pov-ray.ini
> or unable to open files/pov-ray
> 
>   I downloaded the megapov source so I can try and find what's up with the
> command interpeter but it seams to me to have some issues and it'll be a
> while before I have time to do that.  So if anyone can tell me how to fix
> or get arround this problem please let me know.
> 
> thanks,
>   Rob
> 
> 

I'm assuming you also tried using backslash (\) instead of forwardslash 
(/) ?

-- 
Maurice

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