plan9 man page for page

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NAME
       page - view FAX, bitmap, and PostScript files

SYNOPSIS
       page file ...

DESCRIPTION
       Page  reads  each  file,  either  a  CCITT  Group 3 encoded file (such as a FAX page), Plan 9 bitmap file (see bitmap(6)), or PostScript in
       sequence and displays it in its window.	Pressing and holding button 1 permits panning about the page.  Typing a q or control-D	exits  the
       program.   Typing  any other character or clicking button 2 advances to the next file.  Button 3 has a menu of the files to be selected for
       viewing in any order.

       When possible, page overlaps the read of the next page with the display of the current one.

       Page calls gs(1) to convert PostScript files to Group 3 encoded files.  All are converted before any pages are displayed.   The	menu  then
       displays one line for each page of the documents.

FILES
       /lib/nyt/*
	      New York Times FAX files, updated daily.

SEE ALSO
       gs(1)

SOURCE
       /sys/src/cmd/page

DIAGNOSTICS
       The mouse cursor changes to an arrow and ellipsis when page is reading a file.

BUGS
       Page is written in ALEF and therefore has binaries only for MIPS, SPARC, and i386 machines.
       If any of the files are PostScript, they all must be.

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