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30 Apr 2024 05:56:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray directly from C program  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 30 May 2007 11:59:08
Message: <465d9f4c$1@news.povray.org>
EinarDogfin wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> writes:
> 
>> frfo wrote:
>>> I would suggest to use megapov (command line version on windows).
>>> You launch it from your program with no input file, but with the "-"
>>> option in place of the input file. The you can feed it on the standard
>>> input with the scene description.
>> That does not work. POV-Ray cannot read scenes from std input because std
>> input is not random access capable.
>>
>> 	Thorsten
> 
> From the man page:
> 
>    Parsing options:
>        I<input_file_name> or Input_File_Name=file
>               Specifies the input file to use.  If the input file name is '-',
>               the scene description will be read from the standard
>               input.  The
> 
> Odd that it cuts off like that, but there you go.

The man page is simply outdated.

	Thorsten, POV-Team


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