PNMCAT(1)

💖 PNMCAT(1) — Pnmcat User Manual 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, because this one's a short little page but it's got lore. it's in the General Commands Manual section, and it's basically a "hey girl, i moved on" note. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

pnmcat — replaced by pamcat

like. that's it. that's the whole name section. it's giving "we don't do that here anymore, the new girl does it better." periodt. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so first thing: this program is part of Netpbm(1). it's part of the family, it's got the family name, we love her. 💖

now the tea. ☕ pnmcat was obsoleted by pamcat(1), which showed up with Netpbm 11.00 (September 2022). and no, bestie, this wasn't a glow-down — pamcat is backward compatible with pnmcat, so everything you used to do still works, plus it adds so many additional functions, including the ability to process PAM images. like it ate and left no crumbs. 👑

lowkey important: in Netpbm before 11.00, use the manual for pamcat with pnmcat. and heads up — features that are in pamcat but not pnmcat are indicated in that manual by statements saying they didn't exist before 11.00. so if you see one of those, that's your sign it's ✨new✨ and your dusty old version won't have it. 🙈

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🎀 DOCUMENT SOURCE 🎀

this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source. honestly iconic of them. 🧚

the master documentation lives at:

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

go there if you want the source of truth, bestie. it's the main character. 🌈

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and that's the whole page, fr fr. 🌸 this was netpbm documentation, dated 13 August 2022 — Pnmcat User Manual(1), signing off. stay slay, stay compatible, and go read the pamcat manual like a good student. 🫶💜✨