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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:
>> What had you expected "-X" to provide?

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> It's another Debian compface extension.  They've extended it to
> output/input xbm files in addition to that odd "ikon" format the
> normal compface uses.

> What would be a more "standard" sequence of commands to convert an
> X-Face to ppm?

uncompface | ikon2xbm

both of which are part of the faces package, as installed on my RH
system.  I would guess that Debian's -X extension to uncompface is
merely an internal shorthand for this anyway.