Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms From: jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: help with pbmplus Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 17:01:59 GMT References: <1991Apr11.153537.4257@cs.UAlberta.CA> Organization: The Search For TERRESTRIAL Intelligence Lines: 17 In article <1991Apr11.153537.4257@cs.UAlberta.CA> c315-25@cs.UAlberta.CA (Huisman Kenneth M) writes: > >giftoppm filename.gif >filename.ppm > >but all it did was create a file called ">filename.ppm" and continue to dump >all the garbled characters onto the screen. What you need to do is: giftoppm >filename.ppm filename.gif This is a SPECTACULARLY STUPID "feature" of the Amiga, that it doesn't let you put the redirection at the *end* of the command like Unix does. -- * From the disk of: | jms@vanth.uucp | "You know I never knew Jim Shaffer, Jr. | amix.commodore.com!vanth!jms | that it could be so 37 Brook Street | uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms | strange..." Montgomery, PA 17752 | 72750.2335@compuserve.com | (R.E.M.)