PBM and fax?

[Jef Poskanzer]

In the referenced message, hansen at pegasus.ATT.COM (Tony L. Hansen) wrote:
}A set of programs dealing with portable bit maps were posted a while back in
}alt.sources. One of the programs there was supposed to convert G3 fax into a
}portable bit map. Unfortunately, it was documented as not yet working, and
}indeed, it didn't. Does anyone have a working version of g3topbm?
}Alternatively, does anyone have a g3to<anything-else> which I could work off
}of? Thanks.

Date: 11 Oct 89 20:55:42 GMT
From: pokey at well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Subject: Re: Looking for a solution: Unix <-> fax
Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.misc

In the referenced message, allen at ethz.UUCP (Mike Allen) wrote:
}                                                             I have seen
}that the latest version of pbm has a g3topbm program which claims in the
}manual page that "Doesn't work yet" is a bug ...

Thanks to Paul Haeberli, I now have a g3topbm that works, plus a pbmtog3.
They'll show up in your favorite sources newsgroup fairly soon.
---
Jef

    Jef Poskanzer  pokey at well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!pokey
              "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."