Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs326ag From: cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: help with pbmplus Message-ID: <1991Apr13.080833.16713@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 13 Apr 91 08:08:33 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 29 In article jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >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. Let's put the blame where it is due... It is a feature of the shell *you* are using. (I.e. stock cli/Shell) The WShell has no such problem. > >-- >* 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.) Loren J. Rittle -- ``The Amiga continues to amaze me--if I had not been told that this video was created using the Amiga and Toaster, I would not have believed it. Even Allen said, `I think I know how he did most of the effects.' '' - Jim Lange Loren J. Rittle l-rittle@uiuc.edu