pamstretch-gen(1)

📦 version 10.0, in ubuntu jammy

💖 pamstretch-gen 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for pamstretch-gen, a lil command from the General Commands Manual section, and it's genuinely one of my faves for a very specific reason that we're gonna get into. sit down, grab a boba, let's go 🧋✨

✨ NAME ✨

pamstretch-gen — use pamstretch and pnmscale to scale by non-integer values 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pamstretch-gen N [pnmfile]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so, pamstretch-gen is a program that uses pamstretch(1), pnmfile(1), and pnmscale(1) to smoothly scale up a PNM file by any ratio. literally any ratio. she's flexible like that. ✨

think of her as a more general version of pamstretch — hence the name, iykyk 🎀. but fr fr, other than the "any ratio" bit, she's much the same as pamstretch. :-)

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so, tea time: it uses awk just to make some simple floating-point calculations, which is, and I quote, "probably overkill." 😭 like she's out here calling a whole entire language to do some basic math. but also — using dc makes the author's head hurt, so. we respect the boundary, periodt. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Russell Marks (russell.marks@ntlworld.com). give her a round of applause, she ate 🫶

and that's the whole thing, bestie! this page is from the General Commands Manual for pamstretch-gen, dated 10 April 2000 — yeah she's an elder millennial icon, born before most of us, and still serving 💖✨ go scale something by 3.7x, no cap 🌈

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