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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: .IR n ,
        !            29: where
        !            30: .I n
        !            31: is determined from the
        !            32: .B %%Page
        !            33: comments in the file.
        !            34: If these are not present, page selection will not work.
        !            35: .TP
        !            36: .B -R
        !            37: Pages in the file are in reverse order. This flag must be used on such files
        !            38: for the
        !            39: .I -p
        !            40: option to work.
        !            41: .TP
        !            42: .B -r
        !            43: Display the image at full scale, with the bottom left
        !            44: corner positioned at the bottom left corner of the window.
        !            45: (By default, the image is scaled to fit the window, maintaining
        !            46: the aspect ratio of a printer.)
        !            47: .HP
        !            48: .B -a
        !            49: .I x y
        !            50: .br
        !            51: Display the image at full scale with position
        !            52: .I x,y
        !            53: of the image placed at the bottom left corner of the window.
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: .I Psi
        !            56: works on either a Teletype 5620, 630 or 730 terminal
        !            57: as determined by the environment variable
        !            58: .BR TERM .
        !            59: .PP
        !            60: Fonts are implemented with size-24 bitmap fonts.
        !            61: Those available are
        !            62: Symbol, Courier, Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Times-Bold, Times-BoldItalic, Helvetica,
        !            63: Helvetica-Oblique, Helvetica-Bold, Helvetica-BoldOblique.
        !            64: Fonts
        !            65: Courier-Bold,
        !            66: Courier-Oblique,
        !            67: and
        !            68: Courier-BoldOblique
        !            69: are mapped to
        !            70: Courier.
        !            71: Other postscript fonts, including type1, may be used if
        !            72: they are supplied before they're referenced.
        !            73: .PP
        !            74: When the `cherries' icon is displayed, use mouse button 3
        !            75: to move forward
        !            76: .RB ( more ),
        !            77: to a particular page
        !            78: .RB ( page ),
        !            79: or quit 
        !            80: .RB ( done ).
        !            81: Button 2 exits the program completely.
        !            82: .SH EXAMPLES
        !            83: .TP
        !            84: .L
        !            85: troff -ms memo | lp -dstdout -H | psi
        !            86: .br
        !            87: .ns
        !            88: .TP
        !            89: .L
        !            90: troff -ms memo | dpost | psi
        !            91: Two equivalent ways to format a memo, convert it to PostScript,
        !            92: and display it.
        !            93: .PP
        !            94: For best results with TeX documents, use
        !            95: .B dvips
        !            96: with the
        !            97: .BR -Tjerq ,
        !            98: .BR -Tgnot ,
        !            99: or
        !           100: .B "-D 100"
        !           101: option to get fonts of the proper resolution and run
        !           102: .I psi
        !           103: with the
        !           104: .I -r
        !           105: or
        !           106: .I -a
        !           107: flag to prevent
        !           108: .I psi
        !           109: from scaling.
        !           110: .SH FILES
        !           111: .TF psi.err
        !           112: .TP
        !           113: .F psi.err
        !           114: error messages
        !           115: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           116: .IR lp (1),
        !           117: .IR dvips (1),
        !           118: .IR postscript (8),
        !           119: .IR proof (9.1),
        !           120: .IR psifile (1),
        !           121: .IR psix (1)
        !           122: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !           123: A `dead mouse' icon signals an error;
        !           124: error comments are placed on file
        !           125: .FR psi.err .
        !           126: .PP
        !           127: Symbols that lack bitmaps are replaced by `?'
        !           128: and an error is reported.
        !           129: .SH BUGS
        !           130: A psi layer imitates
        !           131: .LR "term 33" ,
        !           132: not
        !           133: .IR mux .
        !           134: Among other difficulties, it will not be reusable if downloaded
        !           135: across the network.
        !           136: .br
        !           137: Unimplemented PostScript features are rotated images and
        !           138: half tone screens.
        !           139: Imagemasks may only be rotated by multiples of 90 degrees, not
        !           140: by arbitrary angles.
        !           141: .br
        !           142: Skipping pages may cause operators to be undefined.

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