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 specified 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@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       papersize(5)

								   24 April 2001						      PAPERCONF(1)