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1.1       root        1: .TH PSI 9.1
                      2: .CT 1 writing_output
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: psi \- postscript interpreter
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B psi
                      7: [
                      8: .I option ...
                      9: ] [
                     10: .I file
                     11: ]
                     12: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     13: .I Psi
                     14: reads Postscript input from
                     15: .I file
                     16: or from standard input
                     17: and simulates the resulting pages in a
                     18: .IR mux (9.1)
                     19: layer.
                     20: The program remains in the layer at exit; further invocations of
                     21: .I psi
                     22: in that layer avoid download time.
                     23: .PP
                     24: The options are
                     25: .TP
                     26: .BI -p n
                     27: Display page
                     28: .I n.
                     29: .TP
                     30: .B -r
                     31: Display the image at full scale, with the bottom left
                     32: corner positioned at the bottom left corner of the window.
                     33: (By default, the image is scaled to fit the window, maintaining
                     34: the aspect ratio of a printer.)
                     35: .HP
                     36: .B -a
                     37: .I x y
                     38: .br
                     39: Display the image at full scale with position
                     40: .I x,y
                     41: of the image placed at the bottom left corner of the window.
                     42: .PP
                     43: .I Psi
                     44: works on either a Teletype 5620 or a Teletype 630
                     45: as determined by the environment variable
                     46: .BR TERM .
                     47: .PP
                     48: Fonts are implemented with size-24 bitmap fonts.
                     49: Those available are
                     50: Symbol, Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Times-Bold, Helvetica,
                     51: Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-Bold.
                     52: .PP
                     53: When the `cherries' icon is displayed, use mouse button 3
                     54: to move forward
                     55: .RB ( more )
                     56: or quit 
                     57: .RB ( done ).
                     58: Button 2 exits the program completely.
                     59: .SH EXAMPLES
                     60: .TP
                     61: .L
                     62: troff -ms memo | lp -dstdout -H | psi
                     63: .br
                     64: .ns
                     65: .TP
                     66: .L
                     67: troff -ms memo | dpost | psi
                     68: Two equivalent ways to format a memo, convert it to PostScript,
                     69: and display it.
                     70: .SH FILES
                     71: .TF psi.err
                     72: .TP
                     73: .F psi.err
                     74: error messages
                     75: .SH SEE ALSO
                     76: .IR lp (1),
                     77: .IR postscript (8),
                     78: .IR proof (9.1)
                     79: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     80: Error comments are placed on file
                     81: .FR psi.err .
                     82: .PP
                     83: Symbols that lack bitmaps are replaced by `?'
                     84: and an error is reported.
                     85: .SH BUGS
                     86: A psi layer imitates
                     87: .LR "term 33" ,
                     88: not
                     89: .IR mux .
                     90: Among other difficulties, it will not be reusable if downloaded
                     91: across the network.
                     92: .br
                     93: Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images or imagemasks,
                     94: half tone screens, multiple path clipping.
                     95: .br
                     96: The charpath operator does nothing since the characters are implemented
                     97: as bitmaps.

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