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diff --git a/upstream/debian-bookworm/man1/ddbugtopbm.1 b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man1/ddbugtopbm.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2e75245a --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/debian-bookworm/man1/ddbugtopbm.1 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +\ +.\" This man page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. +.\" Do not hand-hack it! If you have bug fixes or improvements, please find +.\" the corresponding HTML page on the Netpbm website, generate a patch +.\" against that, and send it to the Netpbm maintainer. +.TH "Ddbugtopbm User Manual" 1 "21 August 2002" "netpbm documentation" + +.SH NAME +ddbugtopbm - convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files + +.UN synopsis +.SH SYNOPSIS + +\fBddbugtopbm\fP + +.UN examples +.SH EXAMPLES + +.nf +\fBddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleBugDB.pdb\fP + +\fBddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleDB.pdb\fP + +\fBddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleIDB.pdb\fP + +.fi + + +.UN description +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +This program is part of +.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c +\&. +.PP +\fBddbugtopbm\fP converts all sketches present in a database used +by the PalmOS programs \fBDiddle\fP or \fBDiddleBug\fP into +appropriately-named PBM files. The backup copy of DiddleBug's +database you should use as this program's input is usually called +\fBDiddleBugDB.pdb\fP. Or if you use the original Diddle, it has two +separate DBs - \fBDiddleDB.pdb\fP, containing unnamed `scratch' +sketches, and \fBDiddleIDB.pdb\fP, containing the saved (and named) +sketches which are listed by its `index' option. You can feed this +program any of these three on standard input. + +.UN options +.SH OPTIONS +.PP +There are no command line options defined specifically +for \fBddbugtopbm\fP, but it recognizes the options common to all +programs based on libnetpbm (See +.UR index.html#commonoptions + Common Options +.UE +\&.) + +.UN using +.SH USING THE PROGRAM +.PP +I recommend you \fInot\fP run \fBddbugtopbm\fP from your Palm +backup directory, i.e. don't run it from the directory the DB will +normally be in. Instead, run it from some other directory (perhaps you +could make a directory purely to hold the PBM files, just to keep +things simple) and use an absolute or relative path to the DB. +.PP +The filenames used for the output PBMs are based on the names given +to each sketch; if you have an unnamed sketch, it's given a name along +the lines of \fBsketch-0123.pbm\fP. +.PP +While the named sketches will overwrite any existing PBM file with +the same name, the unnamed ones won't - they'll just try using another +filename. (I think this is probably the right approach, as you can't +really tell the unnamed sketches apart.) + + + +.UN limitations +.SH LIMITATIONS +.PP +The DiddleBug DB reader is only known to work with DBs from +DiddleBug version 2.50. But it should probably work on later versions, +and I think it'll work on DBs from version 2.15 as well. +.PP +It might fall over if fed an empty database, and doesn't do much +(if any) checking of the input. + + +.UN author +.SH AUTHOR + +Russell Marks (\fIrus@svgalib.org\fP). +.PP +Mitch Blevins's decompression code is directly from DiddleBug +itself, which like ddbugtopbm is distributed under the terms of the +GNU GPL. + +.UN seealso +.SH SEE ALSO +.PP +.BR "palmtopnm" (1)\c +\&, +.BR "pbm" (1)\c +\& +.PP +Jens-Chr. Heyer's `didcon' script does something similar. + +.UN history +.SH HISTORY +.PP +\fBddbugtopbm\fP was new in Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003). It was written +and independently distributed in August 2002. +.SH DOCUMENT SOURCE +This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML +source. The master documentation is at +.IP +.B http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ddbugtopbm.html +.PP
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