09-25-2007
Urgent - Single User Mode -Unisys System V Release 4.0
Hello All,
I have a Unisys 6000/65 machine running Unix System V Release 4.0.My problem is that we received an error that said "SPCS error occurred"and "vxfs:vx -ilisterr-inode 62585 mark bad /filesystem".The machine was stuck and I had to restart it.Now I cannot login from any workstation or the console with any user accounts or passwords.How do I get into single user mode?During the boot process you get a message saying "starting unix boot loader" and another shortly thereafter saying "booting unix".Pressing any key at this stage prompts you to choose a kernel to boot.The networking part works fine as you can ping the box but just can't log onto it.
Thanks
PS:You will be forgiven for not having heard of the Unisys 6000/65 or that version of unix for that matter.
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giftopnm
giftopnm(1) General Commands Manual giftopnm(1)
NAME
giftopnm - convert a GIF file into a portable anymap
SYNOPSIS
giftopnm [--alphaout={alpha-filename,-}] [-verbose] [-comments] [-image N] [GIFfile]
DESCRIPTION
This is a graphics format converter from the GIF format to the PNM (i.e. PBM, PGM, or PPM) format.
If the image contains only black and maximally bright white, the output is PBM. If the image contains more than those two colors, but only
grays, the output is PGM. If the image contains other colors, the output is PPM.
If you have an animated GIF file, you can extract individual frames from it with gifsicle and then convert those using giftopnm.
A GIF image contains rectangular pixels. They all have the same aspect ratio, but may not be square (it's actually quite unusual for them
not to be square, but it could happen). The pixels of a Netpbm image are always square. Because of the engineering complexity to do oth-
erwise, giftopnm converts a GIF image to a Netpbm image pixel-for-pixel. This means if the GIF pixels are not square, the Netpbm output
image has the wrong aspect ratio. In this case, giftopnm issues an informational message telling you to run pnmscale to correct the out-
put.
OPTIONS
--alphaout=alpha-filename
giftopnm creates a PGM (portable graymap) file containing the alpha channel values in the input image. If the input image doesn't
contain an alpha channel, the alpha-filename file contains all zero (transparent) alpha values. If you don't specify --alphaout,
giftopnm does not generate an alpha file, and if the input image has an alpha channel, giftopnm simply discards it.
If you specify - as the filename, giftopnm writes the alpha output to Standard Output and discards the image.
See pnmcomp(1) for one way to use the alpha output file.
-verbose
Produce verbose output about the GIF file input.
-comments
Only output GIF89 comment fields.
-image N
Output the specified gif image from the input GIF archive (where N is '1', '2', '20'...). Normally there is only one image per
file, so this option is not needed.
All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix.
RESTRICTIONS
This does not correctly handle the Plain Text Extension of the GIF89 standard, since I did not have any example input files containing
them.
SEE ALSO
ppmtogif(1), ppmcolormask(1), pnmcomp(1), gifsicle(1) <http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle>, ppm(5).
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 1993 by David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com)
LICENSE
If you use giftopnm, you are using a patent on the LZW compression method which is owned by Unisys, and in all probability you do not have
a license from Unisys to do so. Unisys typically asks $5000 for a license for trivial use of the patent. Unisys has never enforced the
patent against trivial users, and has made statements that it is much less concerned about people using the patent for decompression (which
is what giftopnm does than for compression. The patent expires in 2003 / 2004, depending on the country.
Rumor has it that IBM also owns a patent covering giftopnm.
A replacement for the GIF format that does not require any patents to use is the PNG format.
13 January 2001 giftopnm(1)