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From: Torsten Werner
Subject: Reading from stdin with +I- is broken
Date: 15 Jan 2009 17:05:00
Message: <web.496fb2f68193ebdf69c743b90@news.povray.org>

Hi,

please have a look at <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501591>:

According to the manpage, running 'povray +I-' will read the input file from
stdin.  According to the povray output, it has set the input file to stdin;
however, it seems to be reading garbage characters instead of the real standard
input.

Cheers,
Torsten

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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Reading from stdin with +I- is broken
Date: 16 Jan 2009 04:38:42
Message: <497055a2$1@news.povray.org>

Torsten Werner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please have a look at <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501591>:
> 
> According to the manpage, running 'povray +I-' will read the input file from
> stdin.  According to the povray output, it has set the input file to stdin;
> however, it seems to be reading garbage characters instead of the real standard
> input.

The man page is outdated. This is a documentation bug. There is no stdin 
reading supported and has not been for a long time as the ability to seek 
within the file must be available for POV-Ray to work properly with all 
scene files.

	Thorsten, POV-Team

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