This program is part of Netpbm. pamstretch-gen is a program which uses pamstretch and pamscale to smoothly scale up a Netpbm image by any factor; it's like a more general version of pamstretch (hence the name). pamstretch-gen uses the -dropedge option on pamstretch.
The Netpbm global options -quiet and -plain do not exist on pamstretch-gen.