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PAPERCONF(1)		     General Commands Manual		    PAPERCONF(1)

NAME
     paperconf - print paper configuration information

SYNOPSIS
     paperconf	[ [ -p ] paper | -d | -a ] [ -z ] [ -n | -N ] [ -s | -w | -h ] [
     -c | -m | -i ]

DESCRIPTION
     paperconf prints information about a given paper.	The information that can
     be obtained is 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  envi-
     ronment  variable,  at  the contents of the file specified by the PAPERCONF
     environment variable, at the contents of ${prefix}/etc/papersize or by  us-
     ing  letter as a fall-back value if none of the other alternatives are suc-
     cessful.  By default, width and height of the paper are  printed  in  Post-
     Script points.

OPTIONS
     -p paper
	    Specify the name of the paper about which information is asked.

     -d     Use the default builtin paper name.

     -a     Consider all known paper 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
     ${prefix}/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@debian.org>

SEE ALSO
     papersize(5)

				  24 April 2001 		    PAPERCONF(1)

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