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diff --git a/ppmtoicr.html b/ppmtoicr.html index 0eaa5783..c7f924a3 100644 --- a/ppmtoicr.html +++ b/ppmtoicr.html @@ -2,17 +2,15 @@ <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Ppmtoicr User Manual</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <H1>ppmtoicr</H1> -Updated: 30 July 1990 +Updated: 05 June 2015 <BR> <A HREF="#index">Table Of Contents</A> -<A NAME="lbAB"> </A> <H2>NAME</H2> ppmtoicr - convert a PPM image into NCSA ICR format -<A NAME="lbAC"> </A> -<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2> +<H2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</H2> <B>ppmtoicr</B> @@ -26,8 +24,8 @@ ppmtoicr - convert a PPM image into NCSA ICR format [<I>ppmfile</I>] -<A NAME="lbAD"> </A> -<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> + +<H2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</H2> <p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. @@ -51,8 +49,8 @@ window. <P>Note that there is no icrtoppm tool - this transformation is one way. -<A NAME="lbAE"> </A> -<H2>OPTIONS</H2> + +<H2 id="options">OPTIONS</H2> <DL COMPACT> <DT><B>-windowname</B> <I>name</I> @@ -71,16 +69,10 @@ input pixel.) <DD>Output will be displayed on screen numbered <I>display</I> -<DT><B>-rle</B> - -<DD>Use run-length encoded format for display. (This will nearly -always result in a quicker display, but may skew the colormap). - </DL> -<A NAME="lbAF"> </A> -<H2>EXAMPLES</H2> +<H2 id="examples">EXAMPLES</H2> To display a PPM file named <b>ppmfile</b> using the protocol: @@ -115,33 +107,43 @@ you save the output to a file for later display via <B>cat</B>, increasing the blocksize limit on the display will speed up transmission substantially. -<A NAME="lbAH"> </A> -<H2>SEE ALSO</H2> + +<H2 id="seealso">SEE ALSO</H2> <B><A HREF="ppm.html">ppm</A></B> <P>NCSA Telnet for the Macintosh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1989) -<A NAME="lbAI"> </A> -<H2>AUTHOR</H2> + +<H2 id="author">HISTORY</H2> + +<p>Until Netpbm 10.71 (June 2015), there was a <b>-rle</b> option documented, +which was said to cause the output to use run length encoding compression. +But because of a simple bug in option processing code, the option never had +any effect. And the compression code did not look like it worked anyway and +would take a fair amount of work to fix. Because it was unlikely anyone would +ever use this program again, much less want to use run length encoding, we +removed it from the documentation rather than fix the code. + + +<H2 id="author">AUTHOR</H2> Copyright (C) 1990 by Kanthan Pillay (<A HREF="mailto:svpillay@Princeton.EDU">svpillay@Princeton.EDU</A>), Princeton University Computing and Information Technology. <HR> -<A NAME="index"> </A> -<H2>Table Of Contents</H2> +<H2 id="index">Table Of Contents</H2> <UL> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAF">EXAMPLES</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAG">LIMITATIONS</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAH">SEE ALSO</A> -<LI><A HREF="#lbAI">AUTHOR</A> +<LI><A HREF="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#description">DESCRIPTION</A> +<LI><A HREF="#options">OPTIONS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#examples">EXAMPLES</A> +<LI><A HREF="#limitations">LIMITATIONS</A> +<LI><A HREF="#seealso">SEE ALSO</A> +<LI><A HREF="#history">HISTORY</A> +<LI><A HREF="#author">AUTHOR</A> </UL> </BODY> </HTML> |