On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:27:41AM +0200, Nemosoft Unv. wrote:
> On 31-May-01 Mike Castle wrote:
> > What's wrong with using and/or enhancing the PBM utilities?
>
> I don?t know that one, so that may be ?wrong? :)
That's odd. PBM is _THE_ definitive conversion suite.
> However, by a quick search on ?PBM utilities?, I gather they are programs,
> not functions or a library at all. This is not what I?m aiming at.
What's wrong with programs? It fits into the "Unix way" of doing things:
small programs that do one thing and do them well.
And you're probably going to end up with a bunch of command line interfaces
to the same library anyway. Might as well start off in that direction.
Not to mention that you seem to be wanting to maintain an X * X number of
conversions. That's going to be rather unmanageble. The PBM method, of
having 2 * X number of conversions will work much better.
mrc
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