Pamtopam User Manual(1) General Commands Manual Pamtopam User Manual(1)
NAME
pamtopam - copy PAM image
SYNOPSIS
pamtopam
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pamtopam simply copies a PAM image from Standard Input to Standard Out-
put. This may seem an unnecessary duplication of cat, but remember that
a PAM program can read a PBM, PGM, or PPM image as if it were PAM. So
pamtopam can read either a PBM, PGM, PPM, or PAM image and produce a PAM
image as output.
Even that is of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any
program to which you would feed the resulting PAM image could also just
take the original image directly. However, sometimes you really want a
true PAM image.
You can do a more general job of translating PAM/PNM to PAM with pam-
channel.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options defined specifically for pamtopam, but
it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (See
]8;;index.html#commonoptions\ Common Options]8;;\ .)
SEE ALSO
pamtopnm(1), ppmtoppm(1), pgmtopgm(1), pam(1), pnm(1), ppm(1), pgm(1),
pbm(1)
HISTORY
This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.41 (December 2007).
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
source. The master documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtopam.html
netpbm documentation October 2007 Pamtopam User Manual(1)
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