X-Authentication-Warning: acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de: broeker owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:52:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker X-Sender: broeker AT acp3bf To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: NetPbm 9.16 for DJGPP In-Reply-To: <200108051431.KAA02817@delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Mariano Alvarez Fernandez wrote: [...] > There are some problems that have to be addressed using the binaries in > pure DOS OS, without long file names, but it works OK using the > "p?mmerge" programs, for example: > > ppmmerge ppmtoacad testimg.cad > > instead of the usual > > ppmtoacad testimg.cad Which reminds me of a little hack I did for my own private PBM port long ago (in times of DJGPP V1), to save some disk space. 100+ statically linked executables seemed excessively large, back then, and the makefile built only the p?mmerge ones, anyway. So I created a host of batchfiles, like ppm2acad.bat: @shift @ppmmerge ppmtoacad %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 one per command, and *compiled* them all using Bat2Exec. The compilation step was necessary to make redirection work correctly. Maybe that could be an option for the new port, too? -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.