.TH pbmtomacp 1 "31 August 1988"
.IX pbmtomacp
.SH NAME
pbmtomacp - convert a portable bitmap into a MacPaint file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pbmtomacp
.RB [ -l
.IR left ]
.RB [ -r
.IR right ]
.RB [ -b
.IR bottom ]
.RB [ -t
.IR top ]
.RI [ pbmfile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable bitmap as input.
If no input-file is given, standard input is assumed.
Produces a MacPaint file as output.
.IX MacPaint
.IX Macintosh
.PP
The generated file is only the data fork of a picture.
You will need a program such as
.I mcvert
to generate a Macbinary or a BinHex file that contains the necessary
information to identify the file as a PNTG file to MacOS.
.SH OPTIONS
.PP
Left, right, bottom & top let you define a square into the pbm file,
that must be converted.
Default is the whole file.
If the file is too large for a MacPaint-file, the bitmap is cut to fit
from ( left, top ).
.SH BUGS
The source code contains comments in a language other than English.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
ppmtopict(1), macptopbm(1), pbm(5), mcvert(1)
.SH AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1988 by Douwe van der Schaaf (...!mcvax!uvapsy!vdschaaf).
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