POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : URL specifiers for POVray resources : Re: URL specifiers for POVray resources Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:23:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: URL specifiers for POVray resources  
From: Jerry Stratton
Date: 6 Feb 1999 18:25:04
Message: <newsw-0602991525030001@cx38767-a.dt1.sdca.home.com>
In article <36b87cc9.0@news.povray.org>, par### [at] my-dejanewscom wrote:
>On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 07:44:12 -0800, Jerry Stratton <new### [at] hoboescom> wrote:
>>Yes, I think that something like this ought really be implemented in the
>>operating system itself.
>
>Yeah, maybe we can get Microsoft to integrate a web browser... no, wait.

Does Windows '98 allow the use of URLs as if they were files? If I were
using POV-Ray for Windows '98, could I type

#include "http://www.hoboes.com/html/NetLife/POV/Basics/distances.inc"

and have it work?

That would be almost enough to make me switch platforms.

Jerry
http://www.hoboes.com/jerry/


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