Converting program for mgetty faxes

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> George Vieira wrote:
> >     I have seen alot of converting program for mgetty faxes been received
> > but I'd like any program that can convert to a M$ format like JPG, TIF or
> > anything else..
> 
> g3topbm | pnmtotiff

is there anything to prepend a proper TIFF header to the raw g3 file
without having to process it  through the above pipe ?

> (I want to point out that NEITHER JPG nor TIF are "M$ formats".  On the
> contrary: those are OPEN standards that work everywhere, as opposed to the
> usual M$ crap that works only with ONE version of ONE program).

and I wouldn't be surprised that some TIF readers under Windows only
accept a very limited choice of formats (TIFF being able to use a
number of different formats, compression methods etc.)

	luigi
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