Thanks for the various answers.
I have done the Perl - POV-RAY source before, as well as Perl -
3DML text format before.
I guess I could also use any scriptable drawing package (see
http://www.peter.com.au/programming/scripted-drawing.html ;-) and
do my own 3D conversion as necessary.
I could not figure out how to get the tool process's id. But by observing,
I notice that its pid is 'always' equals to child process's pid+1.
PIDs can wrap, so there is no guarantee of this at all.
Why do you call waitpid with -1, when you know the pid you want to
wait on ($kidpid).
The
Intrah onat Diria .. Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:53:03 +0800
, Peter N Lewis wrote Revera y:
Peter.
Thanks for the ideas.
None of this seems entirely satisfactory though...
do my own 3D conversion as necessary.
http://www.peter.com.au/programming/scripted-drawing.html ;-) and
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