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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> I got it working with $1 $2
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/libc5" $1 $2
> 
> 
> named script libc5
> 
> libc5 pngtopnm file.png > file.ppm
> 
> This worked perfectly.
> How to do it in batch mode?
> 
> for i in *.png;  do libc5 pngtopnm *.png > ????

for i in *.png; do libc5 pngtopnm $i > $i.pnm

(*.png > *.png.pnm)
(remove the redirection > to have all the pnms
concatenated to stdout)

> With $0 $1 I got:
> 
> /..../libc5:  fork:  Resource temporarily unavailable

$0 $1 would create an infinite loop, which is the symptom
seen here. Looks like you ran out of resources, so the
loop died?

> after about 10 sec wait.

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