Converting program for mgetty faxes

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In article <199807020646.IAA12087@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> you wrote:
>> 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 ?

That would be a bad idea. g3topbm will clean up incorrect
comression data caused by transmission errors. Your
TIFF-reading programs may not be able to handle those
errors.

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Erik Corry