NAME

       pamtopam - copy PAM image

SYNOPSIS

       pamtopam

DESCRIPTION

       This program is part of Netpbm(1).

       pamtopam  simply copies a PAM image from Standard Input to Standard Output.  This may seem an unnecessary
       duplication of cat, but remember that a PAM program can read a PBM, PGM, or PPM image as if it were  PAM.
       So pamtopam can read either a PBM, PGM, PPM, or PAM image and produce a PAM image as output.

       Even  that  is  of limited usefulness because of the fact that almost any program to which you would feed
       the resulting PAM image could also just take the original image directly.  However, sometimes you  really
       want a true PAM image.

       You can do a more general job of translating PAM/PNM to PAM with pamchannel.

OPTIONS

       There are no command line options defined specifically for pamtopam, but it recognizes the options common
       to all programs based on libnetpbm (See  Common Options .)

SEE ALSO

       pamtopnm(1), ppmtoppm(1), pgmtopgm(1), pam(1), pnm(1), ppm(1), pgm(1), pbm(1)

HISTORY

       This program was added to Netpbm in Release 10.41 (December 2007).

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/pamtopam.html

netpbm documentation                              October 2007                           Pamtopam User Manual(1)