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Appendix B. Utility Command Line Options
Filename is the name of the Raster Metafile to convert. Only one file name may be specified.
The input file must end with the.rm extension.
The [outputfilename] is the name of the converted output AVI file. If the output file name is not
specified, the input file name is used with an.avi extension. If any of the file names contain
spaces, they must be enclosed in quotes.
For example, the command rmtoavi test.rm will create the file test.avi. If the output
file exists, rmtoavi will prompt to overwrite it unless the -y option is used (see below).
The [options] are described as follows
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-help
Prints help information.
-q
Suppress startup banner and information message.
-y
Suppress query to overwrite an existing AVI file.
-d [nn]
Progress indicator. This prints a dot (.) every [nn]
frames processed. If [nn] is not specified, it defaults to
ten.
-m
Use multiple color palettes in the converted AVI file.
Each frame of an AVI or Raster Metafile animation is limited to 256 colors. AVI animations can use either one set
of 256 colors for the entire animation or a separate set of
256 colors for each frame. If you use the -m option, then
each frame of the output AVI file will use a separate set of
256 colors. Since color information is read from the input
Raster Metafile, this option only affects the output AVI
animation if the Raster Metafile was originally exported
using multiple color palettes.
-speed nn
Sets the speed of the output AVI file to nn frames per second. The default is ten.