Hello ( to whom it may concern)
    I'm using POV to make a small film. Each frame is rendered and what I'm
trying to do is get DTA to add each frame to the flc automatically. The idea
is to make large resolution flc's without using G bytes of disk space.
    I have also been trying to use the zip option with little success as the
help doc's don't say how to use this option.
    I run two small networks of computers at work, these machines have
standard CPU's but small HDD's if I can get this to work the idea is to have
each machine render a small amount of the film adding each frame at a time
to the flc. Since at work they would not notice if the machine was running a
task like POV. All I knead to do then is to collect the results from the
network "automatically" and then concatenate the flc's.
    If this works I should be able to make long films at high resolution
with little or no cost to me. This is a personal project and I make no money
from it.
    If it works...
    a) totally brill.
    b) I might just even register DTA as it will do everything I want.

Any "clean" & " sensible" suggestions please e-mail me.

Thanks

P.S. running 98 se & pov 3.1g

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Well, this post is months old, but here goes.
I think Pov has a shellout option. I have never used it, but I know there is
a way to get Pov to allow you to run a command at the end of the render, and
perhaps after each frame (which is what it sounds like you want). The
command line is fairly straight forward, and I can't believe you haven't
figured that out yet.

dta old_flic.flc add_targa.tga [options] /oAppended

You should register. David K. Mason is a really cool guy and he would
probably even answer your question directly. He sometimes visits here, but
more often on "The Graphics Alternative" BBS, which I used to subscribe to.

He used to accept hardware ;)

Grim

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