09-28-2008
Hello Again
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Lakris
And when it comes to a terminal/tty, moving the cursor to where You want it is not hackish! It's how You do it, at least thats the way I see it
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But you're not simply moving the cursor, you're also erasing characters, thats why I thought its "hackish"..
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Lakris
The are tools/libs such as ncurses that are made for easy manipulation of text screens. One just has to decide how much one need it and which is the path of least resistance.
/Lakris
Fair enough, maybe I'm asking too much from a pure bash script.. Thanks for replying!
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ppmtopgm(1) General Commands Manual ppmtopgm(1)
NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap
SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm [ppmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original
image, as in a black and white photograph. The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b.
Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can
read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting
color to gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original
colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph.
QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray, and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is a quantization error.
SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
10 April 2000 ppmtopgm(1)