Manual: pamtopam

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NAME
       pamtopam - copy PAM image

SYNOPSIS
       pamtopam

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtopam	 simply copies a PAM image from Standard Input to Standard Output.  This may seem an unnecessary duplication
       of cat, but remember that a PAM program can read a PBM, PGM, or PPM image as if it were PAM.  So	 pamtopam  can	read
       either a PBM, PGM, PPM, or PAM image and produce a PAM image as output.

       Even  that is of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any program to which you would feed the resulting
       PAM image could also just take the original image directly.  However, sometimes you really want a true PAM image.

       You can do a more general job of translating PAM/PNM to PAM with pamchannel.

OPTIONS
       There are no command line options defined specifically for pamtopam, but it recognizes the options common to all pro‐
       grams based on libnetpbm (See  Common Options .)

SEE ALSO
       pamtopnm(1), ppmtoppm(1), pgmtopgm(1), pam(1), pnm(1), ppm(1), pgm(1), pbm(1)

HISTORY
       This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.41 (December 2007).

DOCUMENT SOURCE
       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source.  The master documentation is at

	      http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pamtopam.html

netpbm documentation					October 2007				     Pamtopam User Manual(1)