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PAPERCONF(1)                General Commands Manual               PAPERCONF(1)

NAME
       paperconf - print paper configuration informations
SYNOPSYS
       paperconf  [ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h
       ] [ -c | -m | -i ]
DESCRIPTION
       paperconf prints informations about a given  paper.   The  informations
       that can be obtaineed are the name of the paper, its size and its width
       or height.  When called without arguments, paperconf prints the name of
       the  system-  or  user-specified paper, obtained by looking in order at
       the PAPERSIZE environment variable, at the contents of the file  speci-
       fied by the PAPERCONF environment variable, at the contents of the file
       /etc/papersize , consulting  the  values  controlled  by  the  LC_PAPER
       locale  setting, or by using letter as a fall-back value if none of the
       other alternatives are successful.  By default, width and height of the
       paper are printed in PostScript points.
OPTIONS
       -p paper
              Specify  the  name  of  the  paper  about which informations are
              asked.
       -d     Use the default builtin paper name.
       -a     Consider all known papers names.
       -z     If the paper name is unknown, print it but issue  a  message  on
              the standard error and exit with a non-zero code.
       -n     Print the name of the paper.
       -N     Print the name of the paper with the first letter capitalized.
       -s     Print the size (width followed by height) of the paper.
       -w     Print the width of the paper.
       -h     Print the height of the paper.
       -c     Use centimetres as unit for paper size.
       -m     Use millimetres as unit for paper size.
       -i     Use inches as unit for paper size.

ENVIRONMENT
       PAPERSIZE           Paper  size to use regardless of what the papersize
                           file contains.
       PAPERCONF           Full path to a file containing the  paper  size  to
                           use.
FILES
       /etc/papersize      Contains  the name of the system-wide default paper
                           size to be used  if  the  PAPERSIZE  and  PAPERCONF
                           variables are not set.
AUTHOR
       Yves Arrouye <arrouye AT debian.org>
SEE ALSO
       papersize(5)


                                 24 April 2001                    PAPERCONF(1)