On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:54:48 -0500, Andrew Wilcox quoth:

> Well, I've thought of a couple of potential uses.  My overall goal is
> trying to build a render farm program, and there are some tricky points.
>  One of the things I am trying to do is determine all the resource files
> needed by a POV-Ray scene file.  Things like #include files, and image
> files for mappings and such.  To some degree even resources where the
> name is generated at parse time could be figured out, unless some super
> complicated method is used (like using a function or something).

The Parse_String() macro will probably trip any such program up.  It not
only generates the names of the files it includes at runtime, it also
generates the files themselves at that time.

-- 
Mark

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