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30 Apr 2024 12:23:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Povray directly from C program  
From: EinarDogfin
Date: 30 May 2007 11:02:52
Message: <87y7j6pd5w.fsf@gmail.com>
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.


Ryan.


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