On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:21:02 -0600, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<fro### [at] charliecnsiitedu> wrote:

>In article <36b3d4ab.15220878@news.povray.org> , 7no### [at] ezwvcom (Glen Berry)
>wrote:
>
>> It might come in handy for things such as IMP, where people will be
>> rendering scene files that are stored on a machine accessible by the
>> internet. It might also be nice to be able to output the images to a
>> given URL instead of just to a local file.
>
>However, for a platform independent project it is very hard (impossible?) to get
>network access in any portable way.  If you support Sockets and Streams you will
>most likely support most platforms, but not all, that is for sure.
>And as Ron said, NFS (there is surely a client on every platform for it) or
>other network file systems do a much better job than any proprietary interface,
>even it is based on http, ftp or whatever else.

Well, actually, I've never been able to find a free Windows NFS
client, which is why I mentioned SMB.

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