"Barron Gillon" <gil### [at] purdueedu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Maybe this is a newbie question, but I was wondering if there is any way
for
> a calling program to tell when pov-ray is done parsing and has begun
> tracing.  Specifically, if I have a program that executes pov, and pov
> modifies one or more files during parsing, and then I want to do something
> with the files that pov modified, but don't want to have to wait for it to
> finish tracing...  If I was using linux, I suppose I could pipe the output
> stream, but I'm working with Windows.  Thanks!

This the the wrong group for this question. Please read the "[READ BEFORE
POSTING] Purpose of this group" message.

    Thorsten

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Then please indulge me, and tell me what group would be appropriate?  I am
not asking a platform specific question, nor am I asking an SDL question.
This is a programming question, so I assumed I should post in the
programming group...

Barron
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> "Barron Gillon" <gil### [at] purdueedu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:3fcd418e$1@news.povray.org...
> > Maybe this is a newbie question, but I was wondering if there is any way
> for
> > a calling program to tell when pov-ray is done parsing and has begun
> > tracing.  Specifically, if I have a program that executes pov, and pov
> > modifies one or more files during parsing, and then I want to do
something
> > with the files that pov modified, but don't want to have to wait for it
to
> > finish tracing...  If I was using linux, I suppose I could pipe the
output
> > stream, but I'm working with Windows.  Thanks!
>
> This the the wrong group for this question. Please read the "[READ BEFORE
> POSTING] Purpose of this group" message.
>
>     Thorsten
>
>

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In article <3fce9a9c@news.povray.org>,
 "Barron Gillon" <gil### [at] purdueedu> wrote:

> Then please indulge me, and tell me what group would be appropriate?  I am
> not asking a platform specific question, nor am I asking an SDL question.
> This is a programming question, so I assumed I should post in the
> programming group...

This is not a programming question, it has nothing to do with the 
POV-Ray source code. And it *is* platform specific. (You yourself said: 
"If I was using linux...")

If you were doing this under Unix or Linux, the right group would be 
povray.unix. Since you're doing it under Windows, the correct group is 
povray.windows.

Anyway, to answer your original question, you can look in povray.windows 
for information on using POV-Ray on the command-line in Windows, and do 
the same thing you would do under Linux.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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In article <3fce9a9c@news.povray.org> , "Barron Gillon" <gil### [at] purdueedu>
wrote:

> Then please indulge me, and tell me what group would be appropriate?  I am
> not asking a platform specific question, nor am I asking an SDL question.
> This is a programming question, so I assumed I should post in the
> programming group...

povray.general or povray.windows is appropriate for your question because it
is about the use of the program.  It would also help if you would say why
you want to do something between parsing and tracing, because POV-Ray's
behaviour cannot be changed after parsing finished.  So if you provide more
details of what you want to do in your post to p.g or p.w, people will be
able to help you more effectively.

This group is not for general programming questions using POV-Ray, but for
discussing the POV-Ray source code (be it the core or the platform specific
parts) and how to deal with it, extend or modify it.

    Thorsten

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