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From: Roland Mas
Subject: Executable name
Date: 19 Oct 1998 22:06:37
Message: <m3af2soxau.fsf_-_@rpc66.acr.atr.co.jp>
"Duane Tackett" <dua### [at] ameritechnet> writes:

> I actually do have one more dumb question:  why is the executable named
> povwin3 and not povwin31???  Just curious...

  Probably for the exact same reason as the one for which one refers to
Windows 95 as Windows 95 and not as Windows 95 4.00.1111: it's shorter.
The Unix guys are worse: they refer to it as povray period (well, okay,
sometimes x-povray or s-povray, but no version number).  By the way, I
hereby express my gratitude to the POV-Team for having named it x-povray
and not xpovray, since it's the only program the name of which starts by
"x-", which allows me to type it in three keystrokes.  I love these
shells.

Roland.
-- 
Les francophones m'appellent Roland Mas,
English speakers call me Rowlannd' Mass,
Nihongode hanasu hitoha [Lolando Masu] to iimasu.
Choisissez ! Take your pick ! Erande kudasai !


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