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     READER(9.7)                                           READER(9.7)

     NAME
          reader - electronic retrieval of typeset documents

     SYNOPSIS
          reader name

     DESCRIPTION
          Reader presents the named paper on a 5620 terminal in a form
          designed for readability, not for similarity to the printed
          version.  The name is a pathname for a manuscript in the
          papers(7) database with any final `.d' elided) or the name
          of a troff(1) input file.  Mouse button 1 selects subheads;
          button 3 moves forward (`more') or backward (`less').  The
          program exits completely on button 2, or tentatively (to
          avoid downloading upon reexecution) on button 3 (`done').

          When the text in a screen overlaps text in a previous
          screen, a tick mark in the bar (not a scroll bar) at the
          left of the screen shows where new material begins.

          Fully installed papers in the database, which appear as
          directories suffixed `.d', have been preprocessed so that
          reader can present figures and complex equations.  In troff
          input, it understands straightforward text and eqn(1), the
          macro packages ms(6), mm, and me, but cannot handle arbi-
          trary motions such as appear in figures and complex equa-
          tions.

     FILES
          titles, authors and installation dates
          membership list
          /n/bowell/pap/center/department/author/papername[.d]

     SEE ALSO
          troff(1), proof(9.1), docsubmit(1), papers(7)

     BUGS
          Button 1 knows only already-read subheads unless the paper
          has been preprocessed.
          Reader can only handle papers written in troff with standard
          (-ms, -mm, -me) macro packages.