PGMCRATER(1)

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version 11.13.03 · 5 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 Pgmcrater User Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for pgmcrater, and lemme tell you, this one is giving legacy icon that's lowkey retired. She's still on the guest list tho. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

pgmcrater — create cratered terrain by fractal forgery 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pgmcrater

[-number n]

[-height|-ysize s]

[-width|-xsize s]

[-gamma g]

[-randomseed=integer]

okay so real talk about the options vibe: every single option can be abbreviated down to its shortest unique prefix — like you can just say enough letters and she'll know what you mean. 💅

You may also use two hyphens instead of one to designate an option, no drama either way.

And between an option name and its value? white space or equals signs, your call, she's flexible like that. ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This program is part of Netpbm(1).

not to be dramatic but bestie… pgmcrater is obsolete. 😭 Like, all it does now is invoke pamcrater, pamshadedrelief, and pamtopnm. That's it. That's the whole job. She's basically a cute little forwarding address at this point.

You should use those programs in any new application, or if you are modifying an old program or process that does not have to work with a version of Netpbm before 10.68 (September 2014). pgmcrater exists only for backward compatibility — she's not here for the new era, she's here for the girls still running old code. 🫶

The combination of the three programs mentioned above performs the same function as traditional pgmcrater. So like, same energy, different entrances.

Now here's the mapping, and this part is important so pay attention bestie ✨:

  • pgmcrater's -number, -height, -width, and -randomseed options are equivalent to the options of the same name on pamcrater.
  • pgmcrater's -gamma option is equivalent to the option of the same name on pamshadedrelief.
  • pgmcrater's -ysize option is identical to -height; -xsize is identical to -width.
Note, bestie: The former pgmcrater code was split into pamcrater and pamshadedrelief. The reason for the split is that having separate programs is more consistent with Netpbm's building block philosophy. It is possible the separate components can be used in other applications. 🧚

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

🌈 Table Of Contents 🌈

  1. SYNOPSIS
  2. DESCRIPTION
  3. SEE ALSO

💅 DOCUMENT SOURCE 💅

This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation is at

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgmcrater.html

okay that's the whole thing, you ate that reading session fr fr 👑

this was netpbm documentation, dated 26 July 2014, and you just finished the Pgmcrater User Manual(1) — periodt. 💖✨🦋💅

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