Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.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: 14 Apr 91 23:11:25 GMT References: <1991Apr13.080833.16713@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: The Search For TERRESTRIAL Intelligence Lines: 20 In article <1991Apr13.080833.16713@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes: >In article jms@vanth.UUCP (Jim Shaffer) writes: >> >>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. Well to set the record perfectly straight, I'm using the ARP shell. I can't believe that they didn't "fix" this. -- * 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.)