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Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)			     Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)

NAME
       ddbugtopbm - convert Diddle or DiddleBug sketches to PBM files

SYNOPSIS
       ddbugtopbm

EXAMPLES
       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleBugDB.pdb

       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleDB.pdb

       ddbugtopbm </path/to/palm/backup/dir/DiddleIDB.pdb

DESCRIPTION
       This program is part of Netpbm(1)

       ddbugtopbm converts all sketches present in a database used by the Pal‐
       mOS programs Diddle or DiddleBug into  appropriately-named  PBM	files.
       The  backup  copy  of  DiddleBug's database you should use as this pro‐
       gram's input is usually called DiddleBugDB.pdb.	 Or  if	 you  use  the
       original	 Diddle,  it  has  two separate DBs - DiddleDB.pdb, containing
       unnamed `scratch' sketches, and	DiddleIDB.pdb,	containing  the	 saved
       (and  named)  sketches which are listed by its `index' option.  You can
       feed this program any of these three on standard input.

USING THE PROGRAM
       I recommend you not run ddbugtopbm from	your  Palm  backup  directory,
       i.e.  don't  run	 it  from  the	directory  the DB will normally be in.
       Instead, run it from some other directory (perhaps  you	could  make  a
       directory purely to hold the PBM files, just to keep things simple) and
       use an absolute or relative path to the DB.

       The filenames used for the output PBMs are based on the names given  to
       each sketch; if you have an unnamed sketch, it's given a name along the
       lines of sketch-0123.pbm.

       While the named sketches will overwrite any existing PBM file with  the
       same  name,  the	 unnamed  ones	won't - they'll just try using another
       filename.  (I think this is probably the right approach, as  you	 can't
       really tell the unnamed sketches apart.)

LIMITATIONS
       The  DiddleBug  DB reader is only known to work with DBs from DiddleBug
       version 2.50. But it should probably work  on  later  versions,	and  I
       think it'll work on DBs from version 2.15 as well.

       It  might  fall	over if fed an empty database, and doesn't do much (if
       any) checking of the input.

AUTHOR
       Russell Marks (rus@svgalib.org).

       Mitch Blevins's decompression code is directly from  DiddleBug  itself,
       which like ddbugtopbm is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO
       palmtopnm(1) , pbm(5)

       Jens-Chr. Heyer's `didcon' script does something similar.

HISTORY
       ddbugtopbm  was	new in Netpbm 10.18 (August 2003).  It was written and
       independently distributed in August 2002.

netpbm documentation	       21st August, 2002     Ddbugtopbm User Manual(0)
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