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Date:	Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:52:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: NetPbm 9.16 for DJGPP
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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.ppm >testimg.cad
> 
> instead of the usual
> 
>       ppmtoacad <testimg.ppm >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.

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