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From: scott
Subject: Certain POV file causes crash in beta 29
Date: 25 Nov 2008 09:47:54
Message: <492c101a$1@news.povray.org>

I posted a .pov file in beta-test.binaries, whenever I try to load it into 
beta 29 it crashes.  If I edit the file at all (eg remove a space or add a 
line) it then loads fine.

Can anyone else repeat this?

This is on Vista 64bit.

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From: John Coppens
Subject: Re: Certain POV file causes crash in beta 29
Date: 4 Dec 2008 10:24:35
Message: <20081204132434.a0334624.john@johncoppens.com>

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:47:54 +0100
"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:

> I posted a .pov file in beta-test.binaries, whenever I try to load it
> into beta 29 it crashes.  If I edit the file at all (eg remove a space
> or add a line) it then loads fine.

Could this be line-endings? Maybe you are loading unix type line endings,
and editing anything would convert them to m$ endings.

John

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From: scott
Subject: Re: Certain POV file causes crash in beta 29
Date: 5 Dec 2008 04:27:37
Message: <4938f409$1@news.povray.org>

>> I posted a .pov file in beta-test.binaries, whenever I try to load it
>> into beta 29 it crashes.  If I edit the file at all (eg remove a space
>> or add a line) it then loads fine.
>
> Could this be line-endings? Maybe you are loading unix type line endings,
> and editing anything would convert them to m$ endings.

I worked out that the cause was the file size being exactly 4096 bytes. 
Even if it was just full of 'A's it crashed when it was 4096 bytes.  Don't 
know whether anyone else can replicate this (Vista 64bit with 64bit POV 
build).

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