Hi, On Saturday 30 October 2010 08:28 AM, Mike Klinke wrote: Yes I use display quite a bit and I was trying out compare yesterday, but that was with 2 files less than 30kb. Could that have generated a 13G file? Thanks for the response. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

suvayu ali wrote: Just a wild guess: magick spelled with a ck can likely only be one thing, ImageMagick (or GraphicsMagick), unless you are involved in the study of Olde Englyshe.

On 30Oct2010 18:53, suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: | On 30 October 2010 11:17, stan <gryt2(a)q.com&gt; wrote: | > Easy way to check.  Delete the file (it is in /tmp, after all) and then | > run ImageMagick again on the same two files while watching /tmp. | | I tried those, doesn't seem to reproduce the file (or any file for | that matter). As far as I recall I tried two things which I don't | usually do, | | $ convert image1.png image2.png output.png | | and from a remote host, | | $ cat image.png | ssh <localhost> display | | The 2nd one although brought up an ImageMagick window, didn't display | the image file both times. You might need to say "display -", not just "display". -- Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au&gt; DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Why be politically correct when you can be right? - Geoff Miller