pnmtopng reports: no memory to create string

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 11:53 -0500, David Dombrowsky wrote:
> This same error appears on two separate systems with mostly
> different configurations, so I'm hoping it's not a local environment
> thing.
> 
> Running `pnmtopng` from the netpbm package results in an error message.
> 
>  $ pnmtopng
>  pnmtopng: NO MEMORY TO CREATE STRING!
> 
> Other pnmto... commands work.  I'm going to the source right now to
> dig further.  I just wanted to report it so there's a record of it's
> existence.  Has anyone else seen this error?

Confirmed, but only when passing file contents via stdin; with explicit
filenames it does work.  I'm not sure of the cause yet, so if you do
find something, please post it so I can fix it.


Yaakov



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