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28 Jul 2024 14:31:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Certain POV file causes crash in beta 29  
From: scott
Date: 5 Dec 2008 04:27:37
Message: <4938f409$1@news.povray.org>
>> I posted a .pov file in beta-test.binaries, whenever I try to load it
>> into beta 29 it crashes.  If I edit the file at all (eg remove a space
>> or add a line) it then loads fine.
>
> Could this be line-endings? Maybe you are loading unix type line endings,
> and editing anything would convert them to m$ endings.

I worked out that the cause was the file size being exactly 4096 bytes. 
Even if it was just full of 'A's it crashed when it was 4096 bytes.  Don't 
know whether anyone else can replicate this (Vista 64bit with 64bit POV 
build).


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