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diff --git a/ppmtoicr.html b/ppmtoicr.html index dc6265c3..25be88d7 100644 --- a/ppmtoicr.html +++ b/ppmtoicr.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html><head><title>Ppmtoicr User Manual</title></head> <body> <h1>ppmtoicr</h1> -Updated: 05 June 2015 +Updated: 17 July 2022 <br> <a href="#index">Table Of Contents</a> @@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ ppmtoicr - convert a PPM image into NCSA ICR format [<b>-display</b> <i>display</i>] -[<b>-rle</b>] - [<i>ppmfile</i>] +<p>Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use double +hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use white +space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from its value. + + <h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>This program is part of <a href="index.html">Netpbm</a>. @@ -58,10 +61,15 @@ command line options: <dl compact> <dt><b>-windowname</b> <i>name</i> -<dd>Output will be displayed in <i>name</i> (Default is to use -<i>ppmfile</i> or "untitled" if the input is from Standard -Input). +<dd>Output will be displayed in <i>name</i>. + +<p><i>name</i> must be printable characters, and not "^". +<p>Default is to use the input file name if specified on the command line or + "untitled" if the input is from Standard Input. In the former case, any + unprintable character or "^" in the file name becomes a + "." in the window name. + <dt><b>-expand</b> <i>expand</i> <dd>Output will be expanded on display by factor <i>expand</i> (For @@ -93,11 +101,10 @@ may achieve the same effect with the following sequence: </pre> <p>To display a GIF file using the protocol in a window titled after the -input file, zoom the displayed image by a factor of 2, and run-length -encode the data: +input file, zoom the displayed image by a factor of 2: <pre> - giftopnm giffile | ppmtoicr -w giffile -r -e 2 + giftopnm giffile | ppmtoicr -windowname=giffile -expand=2 </pre> <h2 id="limitations">LIMITATIONS</h2> |