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25 Apr 2024 06:11:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Multiple POV-Ray instances possible on Mac?  
From: FurBall
Date: 3 Nov 2006 10:40:00
Message: <web.454b61b5a912f704f2985afc0@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> FurBall wrote:
> > Is it possible to run multiple instances of POV-Ray on a Mac?
> > I haven't been able to find a setting for this.
>
> Mac GUI applications cannot be run in multiple instances, that is a Windos
> thing helping users to work around applications that cannot perform certain
> tasks in parallel (the way POV-Ray for Windows uses it, as you can that way
> have multiple renders running that way), or applications that are so
> unstable you don't want them to run as a single instance (the way Internet
> Explorer needs that feature ;-) ). You can make copies of POV-Ray and run
> each of those on Macs if you want to have multiple parallel renders running.
>
>  Thorsten

Thanks for your advice!
I would never have tried that, but it works!
Thanks again!!


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