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From: davidy@sumax.seattleu.edu (David L. Yee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: ppm utilties...help!
Keywords: ppm, giftoppm
Message-ID: <2160@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 91 07:09:52 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA
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	Help! I heard the recommendations for the PBM utility package. Thus,
I dutifully downloaded it from ab20, and decompressed it. The trouble is,
I can't figure out how to make them, giftoppm to be specific, work. I try:

		giftoppm F18.gif F18.ppm

and it opens a file called F18.ppm but does not seem to write anything to it.
Instead the output goes to the screen instead. The docs seemed to me very
terse, to say the least, and there was hardly anything mentioning the Amiga
in them. I am not very familiar with Unix style programs or commands- so I
hope those of you who are successfully using this package can help me. Please!

				Thanks in advance,
					David L. Yee
				Email to:davidy@sumax.seattleu.edu

P.S. the news reader here is somewhat unreliable. I tried posting this question
before but I don't think it made it out- apologies if you have been forced to
read it twice. If you can do so, please send Email- it is the only way I
can be sure of getting your answer. If by chance anyone else needs to know how
to use this, I shall be happy to post a summary. Thanks again.