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From: eric@eklektik.UUCP (/dev/ph1)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with PBMPLUS
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Date: 15 Oct 90 13:37:30 GMT
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In article <32937@nigel.ee.udel.edu> WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>
>   I have some questions regarding PBMPlus for the Amiga.  My questions
>involve converting PBM and PGM files to ILBM formats.  A file is included 
>to convert color PPM files to ILBM, but no files are included to
>convert PBM or PGM files to ILBM.

The ppmtoilbm tool does what you want.  It converts ppm, pgm, or pbm files to
ilbm, correctly choosing the number of bitplanes, etc.  This goes for
all ppm tools--they work on ppm, pgm, and pbm files.

RTFM.

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