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 ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ .)

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