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- This is the Dec '93 NetPBM suite of image manipulation and conversion
- utilities for the Atari ST, TT, and Falcon030.
-
- These were built using GNU C 2.5.8 and the MiNTlibs pl.44.
-
- ***** Please read the documentation in NetPBM-doc.tar.gz for full *****
- ***** details on copyrights and whatnot! *****
-
- To use NetPBM, you will need:
-
- * MiNT (v 0.98 or higher, preferably 1.04 or the current version)
-
- * a minix partition large enough to store all of the files (give yourself
- about 6M of free space for the binaries)
-
- * all of the files:
- - NetPBM-man.tar.gz (the manual pages)
- - NetPBM-doc.tar.gz (supplementary documentation, including a
- LaTeX version of the manual pages)
- - NetPBM-lib.tar.gz (GNU C libraries and header files; only if you
- plan to compile programs using NetPBM
- functions and libraries)
- - NetPBM-pbm.tar.gz (Portable Bitmap binaries)
- - NetPBM-pgm.tar.gz (Portable Greymap binaries)
- - NetPBM-ppm.tar.gz (Portable Pixmap binaries)
- - NetPBM-pnm.tar.gz (Portable Anymay binaries)
-
- If you have a TT or Falcon, you might want to get these instead:
- - NetPBM-pbm020.tar.gz (68020 and up Portable Bitmap binaries)
- - NetPBM-pgm020.tar.gz (68020 and up Portable Greymap binaries)
- - NetPBM-ppm020.tar.gz (68020 and up Portable Pixmap binaries)
- - NetPBM-pnm020.tar.gz (68020 and up Portable Anymap binaries)
-
- * tar and GNU zip (gzip) to unpack the files
-
- * a decent shell in /bin/sh (some of the utilities are shell scripts)
-
- To install NetPBM:
-
- 1) Make a directory on a minix partition for NetPBM, and cd into it;
- this is optional if, for example, you already have bin and man
- directories on your minix partition that you want to unpack the stuff
- into.
-
- 2) Unpack each of the files with the command:
-
- gzip -d -c filename.tar.gz | tar -xovf -
-
- 3) Add the new bin directory to your PATH environment variable, and add
- the new man directory to your MANPATH environment variable (if your
- man utilities support MANPATH).
-
- Other Important Things
-
- * You'll probably need to set the UNIXMODE environment variable to b (or
- add b to your current UNIXMODE environment variable, if you've got
- one).
-
- * These are VERY SLOW on an ST.
-
- * These would be much smaller and easier on RAM if we had shared
- libraries.
-
- * The binaries aren't shareable. Why? Well, there isn't a sharable
- version of the math library (pml.olb), and several of the programs
- need math support.
-
- -Chris-
- cherborth@semprini.waterloo-rdp.on.ca (play; UUCP)
- herborth@53iss6.waterloo.ncr.com (work; Internet)
-