1Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)                            Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)
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NAME

6       ddbugtopbm - convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files
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SYNOPSIS

10       ddbugtopbm
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EXAMPLES

14       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleBugDB.pdb
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16       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleDB.pdb
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DESCRIPTION

24       This program is part of Netpbm(1).
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26       ddbugtopbm converts all sketches present in a database used by the Pal‐
27       mOS programs Diddle or DiddleBug into  appropriately-named  PBM  files.
28       The  backup  copy  of  DiddleBug's database you should use as this pro‐
29       gram's input is usually called DiddleBugDB.pdb.   Or  if  you  use  the
30       original Diddle, it has two separate DBs - DiddleDB.pdb, containing un‐
31       named `scratch' sketches, and DiddleIDB.pdb, containing the saved  (and
32       named)  sketches  which are listed by its `index' option.  You can feed
33       this program any of these three on standard input.
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OPTIONS

37       There are no command line options defined specifically for  ddbugtopbm,
38       but it recognizes the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm
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40        Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)
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USING THE PROGRAM

44       I recommend you not run ddbugtopbm from  your  Palm  backup  directory,
45       i.e.  don't  run it from the directory the DB will normally be in.  In‐
46       stead, run it from some other directory (perhaps you could make  a  di‐
47       rectory  purely  to hold the PBM files, just to keep things simple) and
48       use an absolute or relative path to the DB.
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50       The filenames used for the output PBMs are based on the names given  to
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54       While the named sketches will overwrite any existing PBM file with  the
55       same  name,  the  unnamed  ones  won't - they'll just try using another
56       filename.  (I think this is probably the right approach, as  you  can't
57       really tell the unnamed sketches apart.)
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LIMITATIONS

63       The  DiddleBug  DB reader is only known to work with DBs from DiddleBug
64       version 2.50. But it should probably work  on  later  versions,  and  I
65       think it'll work on DBs from version 2.15 as well.
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67       It  might  fall  over if fed an empty database, and doesn't do much (if
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AUTHOR

73       Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).
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75       Mitch Blevins's decompression code is directly from  DiddleBug  itself,
76       which like ddbugtopbm is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
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SEE ALSO

80       palmtopnm(1), pbm(1)
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82       Jens-Chr. Heyer's `didcon' script does something similar.
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HISTORY

86       ddbugtopbm  was  new in Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003).  It was written and
87       independently distributed in August 2002.
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

90       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman'  from  HTML
91       source.  The master documentation is at
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95netpbm documentation            21 August 2002       Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)