Re: Anyone have xv patches for xbm

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From: Joachim Glaubrecht #Alwd#
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 12:33

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In article <ANDY.93Jan24023347@meefun.autodesk.com> andy@meefun.autodesk.com (Andrew Purshottam) writes:
>Hi, was quite surprized when master of 10^3 formats xv could not
>handle xbm. Anyone have patches for such? Thanks, Andy (andy@autodesk.com)
>Andrew V. Purshottam      /\     |  andy@autodesk.com  ...!fernwood!acad!andy 

hi,
 
don't you have PBMPlus ? if not: GET IT. it's great. viewing *.xbm
(and LOTS of other formats) is then simple:

            xbmtopbm <OurFile>.xbm | xv -nolimits -

the "trick" is, that xv can read from STDIN and the PBMPlus "xbmtopbm"
converts your data to a format, xv can read.

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