Release 10.35.03

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-Jef Poskanzer (jef@acme.com) invented the PBM format in the 1980s to
-provide the computer graphics world with a common, trouble-free
-format, a lingua-franca, for bitmaps.  The format was designed to be
-simple enough that it could transmitted within an email message
-without any special encapsulating and survive any translations and
-recoding that an email message might go through and be easily
-extractable on the other end.
-
-In 1988, Jef distributed the forerunner of Netpbm, Pbmplus, which
-gathered together the various tools he had developed to work with PBM
-files.  These were mainly tools to convert between PBM and other
-existing graphics formats, making it possible to deal with the Tower
-Of Babel situation that had arisen with the proliferation of graphics
-formats.
-
-By the end of 1988, Jef had added the PGM and PPM formats and lots more
-tools to Pbmplus.
-
-In 1991, Jef added a variety of programs and code contributed by the
-user community, and then stopped maintaining Pbmplus.  Jef never
-formally renounced support for it, but simply didn't get around to
-distributing any updates for over a year following his final December
-10, 1991 release.
-
-In 1993, Netpbm was developed to replace Pbmplus.  Netpbm was nothing
-more than a new release of Pbmplus, and named for the fact that people
-all over the world would maintain the package by submitting fixes and
-enhancements over the Net.  This was a time when such worldwide
-collaboration was still novel.
-
-Then Netpbm apparently fell into neglect with the last release by its
-regular maintainer in March 1994.  In September of 1995 Anthony
-Thyssen released an unofficial update of it called Netpbm-1mar1994.p1,
-while disclaiming any responsibity for ongoing upkeep.
-
-The documentation in that 1995 release mentioned two different official
-mailing lists concerning the package, but by April 1999, neither
-existed anymore.
-
-In September 1999, Bryan Henderson needed some minor bugs fixed, and
-wanted to clean up the mess of unsupported versions and outdated
-documentation of these tools.  After checking around to see if anyone
-had any claims of ownership of the package, and finding none, Bryan
-assumed control and responsibility for Netpbm.  
-
-In November 1999, Thorbjoern Ravn Anderson <ravn@mip.sdu.dk> did the
-same thing, for the same reason (apparently unaware of Bryan's work)
-and made available an updated version (based on the 1994 release) as
-described by http://sunsite.auc.dk/netpbm.  Shortly thereafter, he
-discontinued his effort in deference to the new Pbmplus effort
-mentioned below.  Bryan did not know about Anderson's work until March
-2000.
-
-In August 2000, the PAM format appeared.  But it took a long time
-after that for there to be enough programs and library routines to
-make it useful.  It still is barely known and used; PAM is more of a
-direction or philosophy than a practical tool.  Along with PAM came a
-whole new suite of library routines for processing both classic PNM
-and PAM format images.  The new "pam" routines are easier to use.
-
-In parallel, and unknown to Bryan, Jef was working on a new release
-under the original name Pbmplus and claiming again (or maybe still) to
-be maintaining Pbmplus.  He did a limited release of a beta version of
-it in November 1999.  A mailing list pbmplus@acme.com was active.
-Bryan learned of this effort's existence in March 2000.  No widespread
-distribution ever resulted from this.
-
-Pbmplus and Netpbm were once part of the body of X/Windows contributed
-software, distributed on ftp.x.org (directory contrib/utilities).
-Bryan didn't receive a response to an inquiry to the ftp.x.org owner
-as to the prospect of cleaning up the Netpbm related files there.  So
-Bryan instead made Metalab the new home of the source code.  But
-Metalab had pretty low quality too, and in April 2000 Bryan moved the
-package's home to Sourceforge.
-
-In June 2002, Bryan reorganized the package.  Before, it was organized to
-reflect the evolution of the package:  first PBM only, then PGM was added,
-then PPM, and then the multi-format PNM programs.  There were four separate
-subroutine libraries and each of the PBM, PGM, PPM, and PNM components was
-independent of the components invented later.  Documentation was in the form
-of traditional man pages.  In Release 10, the package was integrated into a
-single monolithic package.  There was one subroutine library and the source
-tree was divided according to program function rather than what generation
-of Netpbm it related to.  All documentation was converted to HTML.
-
-In January 2004, Netpbm started to get the linear/gamma-adjusted
-sample value thing right.  Many programs had always used the gamma
-adjusted values from Netpbm images as if they were linear, which
-produced incorrect and rather terrible results.  Netpbm 10.20 brought
-the pm_[un]gamma709() library routines and pnm_readpamrown() etc.  for
-manipulating Netpbm images in floating point 0..1 sample values, both
-linear and gamma-adjusted.
-
+See http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/history.html for a general history of
+Netpbm.
 
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 06.09.03 BJH  Release 10.35.02
 
               pbmtonokia: fix headers of NGG and NOL to include 3 character