1PAPERCONF(1)                General Commands Manual               PAPERCONF(1)
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NAME

6       paperconf - print paper configuration informations
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SYNOPSYS

9       paperconf  [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h
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DESCRIPTION

13       paperconf prints informations about a given  paper.   The  informations
14       that can be obtaineed are the name of the paper, its size and its width
15       or height.  When called without arguments, paperconf prints the name of
16       the  system-  or  user-specified paper, obtained by looking in order at
17       the PAPERSIZE environment variable, at the contents of the file  speciā€
18       fied by the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents of the file
19       /etc/papersize , consulting  the  values  controlled  by  the  LC_PAPER
20       locale  setting, or by using letter as a fall-back value if none of the
21       other alternatives are successful.  By default, width and height of the
22       paper are printed in PostScript points.
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OPTIONS

25       -p paper
26              Specify  the  name  of  the  paper  about which informations are
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29       -d     Use the default builtin paper name.
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31       -a     Consider all known papers names.
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33       -z     If the paper name is unknown, print it but issue  a  message  on
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36       -n     Print the name of the paper.
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38       -N     Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
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40       -s     Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.
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42       -w     Print the width of the paper.
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44       -h     Print the height of the paper.
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46       -c     Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
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48       -m     Use millimetres as unit for paper size.
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50       -i     Use inches as unit for paper size.
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ENVIRONMENT

54       PAPERSIZE           Paper  size to use regardless of what the papersize
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57       PAPERCONF           Full path to a file containing the  paper  size  to
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FILES

61       /etc/papersize      Contains  the name of the system-wide default paper
62                           size to be used  if  the  PAPERSIZE  and  PAPERCONF
63                           variables are not set.
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AUTHOR

66       Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>
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SEE ALSO

69       papersize(5)
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74                                 24 April 2001                    PAPERCONF(1)
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