PNMINTERP(1)

🦋 NAME 🦋

pnminterp — bestie, it got replaced by pamstretch 💅 that's the whole vibe of this page fr fr

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so first thing you need to know: this program is part of Netpbm(1) 🫶 so it lives in the Netpbm family, that's the context, keep that in your notes 📝

and now the tea ☕ pnminterp was replaced in Netpbm 9.21 (December 2001) by pamstretch(1). like. it is so 2001 in here 😭 it's giving legacy, it's giving retired icon, it's giving "we don't do that anymore".

heads up bestie: this one is a relic, no cap. the replacement era already started back in December 2001, so don't come for me if your muscle memory is stuck on the old name 💀

but here's the good part, and it's lowkey the best part: pamstretch is backward compatible with pnminterp 🎀 so everything you used to feed it, it still eats, no drama. and it also recognizes PAM input — including PAM input that has a transparency channel 💖✨ so it's not just a swap, it's a glow-up. same energy, whole new feature set. main character behavior honestly 👑

so yeah, the way that pamstretch handles PAM and transparency is exactly why this page is short and sweet and mostly a little memorial plaque 🌸 iconic, but also: go use pamstretch(1), iykyk 🧚

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📄 DOCUMENT SOURCE 📄

fun behind-the-scenes moment, because sourcing matters and i'm not about to gatekeep 🙈 this manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool makeman from HTML source ✨ (a whole pipeline, obsessed).

and the master documentation — the mothership, the original text, the final boss — is right here bestie, go touch grass with it 🌈

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

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that's it, that's the page 💜 this was netpbm documentation from December 2001 🎀 pnminterp era, forever in our hearts, but pamstretch is the moment now, slay, bye 🦋✨