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authorgiraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>2018-02-17 16:52:15 +0000
committergiraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8>2018-02-17 16:52:15 +0000
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diff --git a/pam.html b/pam.html
index 0751c998..c9b288f7 100644
--- a/pam.html
+++ b/pam.html
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ library functions that can each handle all three of those formats.
 that you can represent the same information in a PAM image as you can
 in a PBM, PGM, or PPM image.  And in fact a program that is designed
 to read PBM, PGM, or PPM and does so with a recent version of the
-Netpbm library, will read an equivalent PAM image just fine and the
+Netpbm library will read an equivalent PAM image just fine and the
 program will never know the difference.
 
 <P>To confuse things more, there is a collection of library routines
diff --git a/pbmtext.html b/pbmtext.html
index 6233da11..2fd58daf 100644
--- a/pbmtext.html
+++ b/pbmtext.html
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ pbmtext - render text into a PBM image
 [<B>-lspace</B> <I>pixels</I>]
 [<B>-nomargins</B>]
 [<B>-width</B> <i>pixels</i>]
+[<b>-text-dump</b>]
 [<I>text</I>]
 
 <p>Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable.  You may use double
@@ -34,6 +35,10 @@ space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value.
 the command line or multiple lines from standard input, and renders it
 into a PBM graphical image.
 
+<p>The text rendered is all the non-option command line arguments, separated
+by spaces, except that if there are no non-option command line arguments, it
+is Standard Input.
+  
 <P>In the image, each line of input is a line of output.  Formatting
 characters such as newline have no effect on the formatting; like any
 unprintable character, they turn into spaces.
@@ -138,6 +143,13 @@ the middle of a word and a line may begin or end with white space.
 have line breaks where they make sense, and <b>pbmtext</b> simply
 truncates each line as needed to fit the specified width.
 
+<dt><b>-text-dump</b>
+<dd>
+This option causes <b>pbmtext</b> just to write to Standard Output the text in
+ASCII that would be rendered.  The output reflects any text formatting,
+unprintable character substitution, tab expansion, etc.  It is for diagnosing
+problems.  This option was new in Netpbm 10.82 (March 2018).
+
 </DL>