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.TH "Pnmtosgi User Manual" 0 "29 January 1994" "netpbm documentation"

.SH NAME

pnmtosgi - convert a PNM image to a SGI image file

.UN synopsis
.SH SYNOPSIS

\fBpnmtosgi\fP

[\fB-verbatim\fP|\fB-rle\fP]

[\fB-imagename\fP \fIName\fP]

[\fBpnmfile\fP]

.UN description
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This program is part of
.BR "Netpbm" (1)\c
\&.
.PP
\fBpnmtosgi\fP reads a PNM image as input and produces an SGI
image file as output.  The SGI image will be 2-dimensional (1 channel)
for PBM and PGM input, and 3-dimensional (3 channels) for PPM.

.UN options
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
(most notably \fB-quiet\fP, see 
.UR index.html#commonoptions
 Common Options
.UE
\&), \fBpnmtosgi\fP recognizes the following
command line options:


.TP
\fB-verbatim\fP
Write an uncompressed file.
.TP
\fB-rle\fP (default)
Write a compressed (run length encoded) file.
.TP
\fB-imagename\fP \fIname\fP
Write the string "name" into the imagename field of the header.
The name string is limited to 79 characters.
If no name is given, pnmtosgi writes "no name" into this field.


.UN references
.SH REFERENCES

SGI Image File Format documentation (draft v0.95) by Paul Haeberli (\fIpaul@sgi.com\fP).  Available via ftp at
sgi.com:graphics/SGIIMAGESPEC.

.UN seealso
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR "pnm" (1)\c
\&,
.BR "sgitopnm" (1)\c
\&

.UN author
.SH AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 1994 by Ingo Wilken (\fIIngo.Wilken@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de\fP)
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