From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Need help on 'page' command
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:11:38 -0500
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>  I tried to display what I suppose is a jpg file as follows:
>
>  gs /n/cdb/JPEGS300/AACROCK1.JPG|page -V
>  reading through graphics...

The stdout of gs is not a picture file - it's diagnostic stuff.
(The author was a little new to Unix when he started.)
This will confuse page, which will then fall to vestigial
code and invoke the old fb stuff, which is deprecated.
Around here, where legacy binaries still exist,

As secondary proof,
%% </dev/null gs > x
%% sed 5q x
Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
GS>
%% page -V < x
reading through graphics...
fb/cvt2pic: can't decode stdin
IN: Can't read header
...
%%

So you see, gs is not the easiest way to display a JPG.
Either use jpg, page, or read up on gs to see how to make
it produce a file, and then run page on that file.  It's a
little intricate.

-rob