PNMTOPLAINPNM(1)

✨ NAME ✨

pnmtoplainpnm — bestie, this one got replaced by pamtopnm 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so first things first: this program is part of Netpbm(1). 🫶

Here's the tea, and I'm gonna be so fr fr with you: pnmtoplainpnm was obsoleted in Netpbm 10.23 (July 2004) by pamtopnm(1). Like, it's giving retired icon. 👑

So instead of using this, literally just use the Netpbm common option -plain. That's it. That's the whole vibe. ✨

pnmtoplainpnm still exists today for backward compatibility only — all it does is call:

pamtopnm -plain

Nothing more, nothing less. It's just a lil middleman doing its one job. 🙈

And for the lore girlies 🎀: pnmtoplainpnm was new in Netpbm 8.2 (March 2000), as a renaming of pnmnoraw — which itself was new in Pbmplus in November 1989. The way this name has a whole ancestry, I'm obsessed. 🌸

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📜 DOCUMENT SOURCE 📜

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

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

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💀 Heads up bestie: don't reach for pnmtoplainpnm in new code, it's a relic. pamtopnm -plain is the main character now, periodt.

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mmm okay that's the whole page, hope it ate 💅 this came straight from the netpbm documentation, July 2004 era, and it's the user manual for pnmtoplainpnm — see you in the group chat, ily, bye 🦋