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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 23:36:10 +0200
From: Mariano Alvarez Fernandez <malfer AT teleline DOT es>
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To: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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>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?

Except for some standalone programs, in the NetPbm binary distribution
all programs are symlinks to p?mmerge, so they don't vaste disk space.

I can produce a 8.3 clean binary distribution, but the actual NetPbm
maintainer is releasing very fast, so I prefer by now don't lose the
compatibility.

M.Alvarez