Remove the need of '#' for alpha masks

To be honest, it can happen too easily that the user forgets to put
the colour in quotation marks, yielding in the rest of the
pipeline to be discarded as a comment.

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/ff2jpg.1 b/ff2jpg.1
index 5c8e97a..4555a66 100644
--- a/ff2jpg.1
+++ b/ff2jpg.1
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ writes a diagnostic message to stderr.
 .It Fl b Ar colour
 Mix the background alpha channel with
 .Ar colour
-specified as #rgb, #rrggbb or #rrrrggggbbbb. The default is #fff.
+specified as rgb, rrggbb or rrrrggggbbbb. The default is fff.
 .It Fl o
 Optimize the Huffman table, which reduces the file size but takes longer.
 .It Fl q Ar quality
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ $
 .Pp
 $ bunzip2 < image.ff.bz2 |
 .Nm
--b '#00ff00' -q 90 > image.jpg
+-b 0f0 -q 90 > image.jpg
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr bzip2 1 ,
 .Xr farbfeld 5
diff --git a/ff2ppm.1 b/ff2ppm.1
index 9bebf7a..feba2f3 100644
--- a/ff2ppm.1
+++ b/ff2ppm.1
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ writes a diagnostic message to stderr.
 .Ar colour
 Mix the background alpha channel with
 .Ar colour
-specified as #rgb, #rrggbb or #rrrrggggbbbb. The default is #fff.
+specified as rgb, rrggbb or rrrrggggbbbb. The default is fff.
 .El
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $
 .Pp
 $ bunzip2 < image.ff.bz2 |
 .Nm
--b '#00ff00' > image.ppm
+-b 0f0 > image.ppm
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr bzip2 1 ,
 .Xr farbfeld 5
diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index ea933ca..ba139b4 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -57,10 +57,6 @@ parse_mask(const char *s, uint16_t mask[3])
 	unsigned int col[3], colfac;
 	char fmt[] = "%#x%#x%#x";
 
-	if ((s++)[0] != '#') {
-		return 1;
-	}
-
 	slen = strlen(s);
 	if (slen != 3 && slen != 6 && slen != 12) {
 		return 1;