NAME

       pamfixtrunc - replaced by pamfix

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamfixtrunc was replaced in Netpbm 10.66 (March 2014) by pamfix(1).

       pamfix  with a -truncate option is the same thing as pamfixtrunc.  But pamfix has other options to repair
       other kinds of corruption.

       Another change that came with Netpbm 10.66 is that an invalid sample value  (a  value  greater  than  the
       maxval  the  image  declares in its header) is considered by the common Netpbm image reading facility (in
       libnetpbm) to be unreadable, which means the file is essentially truncated.  In older Netpbm, the invalid
       sample value propagates to the output in a program such as pamfixtrunc.  Thus, in  older  Netpbm  a  file
       with  100  rows and an invalid sample value in the 3rd row would pass through pamfixtrunc unchanged.  But
       in Netpbm 10.66, pamfix -truncate with the same input would produce an output image  with  only  2  rows.
       While  it is not possible in 10.66 to cause pamfix to generate an invalid Netpbm image, you can use -clip
       and -changemaxval options to avoid truncating the file in a case like this.

       You should not make any new use of pamfixtrunc and if you modify an existing use, you should  upgrade  to
       pamfixtrunc.   But  note  that  if  you  write a program that might have to be used with very old Netpbm,
       pamfixtrunc is the only way to do that.

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/pamfixtrunc.html

netpbm documentation                                                                  Pamfixtrunc User Manual(1)