I realize that  this question has been asked before (2003);  

From: Yi-Xiong Zhou 
Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 10:57:35 EST 

but I am hoping that the answer has changed. Namely, I would 
rather read the BMP  (or TIFF) files directly instead of putting 
them though a separate utility for conversion as suggested by,

From: Prof Brian Ripley 
Date: Sat 22 Nov 2003 - 15:23:33 EST

"Even easier is to convert .bmp to .pnm by an external utility. For 
example, `convert' from the ImageMagick suite (www.imagemagick.org) can do 
this. "



Thanks,
Robert Meglen
bmeglen@comcast.net
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