ppm PAINTER and xv-2.21

I made paint output of raster image of elevation.dem in spearfish for ppm,
and it seems to have worked successufully. I got a 1.8MB paint.ppm file.
Then I run the xv-2.21 to see it.

grass 4.0> xv paint.ppm

After a while, I got the error message as

QuickCheck: impossible situation!

My xv program is working fine for the other files.

Are ther any had the similar experience as me ?

  Hallo,
   I successfully exported elavation.dem and read it from xv-2.21.
   From grass4.0 I have use command :
   r.out.tga input=elvation.dem output=/mydir/elavation.tga .

   After I have pbmplus (You can have pbmplus routines from an ftp site)
   routines to convert tga image into ppm with command :
   ppbmplus/tgatoppm /mydir/elevation.tga > /mydir/elvation.ppm

   This file is readable (or updating) from xv-2.21 .

   Note : elevation.tga is big 1995540 bytes
          elevation.ppm is big 1995047 bytes

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Bruno Minoja
Cilea (Consorzio Interuniversitario Lobardo Elaborazione Automatica)
Segrate Milano Italia
minoja@icil64.cilea.it
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