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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Let Us Celebrate NetPBM
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:00:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Diego Garcia <dg@linux.rocks> wrote at 09:37 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> 
>> Generally, you use images to show to other people, so I don't see how it
>> being Unix exclusive is a positive.
>>
>
> A lot of GNU/Linux software will either default to or demand
> PNM images for input/output.
>
> One program that comes to mind is the SANE scanning package
> where scanimage will output PNM format only.
>
> The reason is PIPES.
>
> All the programs within NetPBM can be piped together to provide
> a processing chain.  It is thus convenient to have software
> output in PNM format so that it can be immediately piped
> into a processing chain.
>
> This is the traditional Unix way.


Oh, cool. I didn't know that.
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