I just obtained IM 6.0.8 (Q16) and ran the same command-line convert job as in my previous message; no problems.
By the way, the only place I could still find IM 6.0.0 binary for MS-Windows was at
www.dylanbeattie.net/magick/download/ImageMagick-6.0.0-Q16-windows-dll.exe
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