02-22-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Corona688
It's not a bash-ism.
You are quite correct.
KSH93 supports it (perhaps it originated there?), but KSH88 does not. I suspect that SFNYC, like myself, is using pdksh which is KSH88 for the most part.
For the sticklers, it still hasn't found its way into the POSIX sh standard.
Thanks for the correction, Corona688.
Regards,
Alister
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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.
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read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting
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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)