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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

> > > > I think I am going to need to learn to compile netpbm.
> > >
> > > I'll try and compile it. Check my website tomorrow for the binaries.
> >
> > It would take me a month.  Can you do it statically?
>
> I didn't compile it statically, BUT you can use it on any i386 PC by
> copying these 3 files from BL3:
>
> /lib/libc.so.5
> /lib/ld-linux.so.1
> /lib/libm.so.5
>
> > Remind us of your URL.  Perhaps James could link to it or copy your
> > files to his site.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/pbmtox.tar.gz starts a download
> of the tools. I only included the pbmto* ones, for space reasons. Once
> you download the package, you need to copy the library from there to
> your /lib directory, then you can run any of the converters. If I've
> left anything out that you need, or it is buggy/doesn't work at all,
> please let me know.

You included a large number of things I don't need such as pbmto10x and 
pbmtog3 and pbmtoln03.

What I can use:
pbmtoepson
pbmtoescp2 (Epson escp/2 printers)
pbmtolj     (laserjet - will this work with deskjet too?)
pbmtolps   (postscript)
pbmtoppa   (HP 720ce 822cse)

No --help on these.  Do the man pages look useful?

Is ppm the same as pnm?
I was hoping for a way to also print gif png jpg and tiff without X or gs.

pngtopnm
jpegtopnm
giftopnm
tifftopnm
pstopnm

I did not find any pnmtoepson.
Can pbmtoepson work on a pnm file to at least print in mono?

ppmtogif
ppmtolj  - but no epson or other printers
Is there a ppmtops?

Some of the editors look useful (with man pages):
pbmscale
pbmreduce
pnmcrop
pnmmontage
pnmrotate

and probably several others.

I will first try out pbmtoepson and pbmtolj (on the deskjet).