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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Translating macpaint icons to xbm graphically
Message-ID: <9103280619.AA15956@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 28 Mar 91 06:19:04 GMT
Sender: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
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> Is there a tool on public domain able to read an xbm file, and allow
> the user to cut a section of that file, and write that section into
> another xbm file...

I don't know offhand whether it's public domain or not (I suspect not),
but Jef Poskanzer's pbmplus package is free, and can do this...

xbmtopbm < xbm-file-in | pnmcut x y w h | pbmtoxbm > xbm-file-out

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