Locale?

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Sat Feb 11 23:29:26 UTC 2006


On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:45:53PM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> I'm still trying to print man pages on US Letter paper without success.
> This is the same problem as getting "groff -Tps ..." to emit output fo
> letter size paper, which doesn't seem to be so easy to do.  And so, I
> have been led to locales, which seem to be very useful and very
> undocumented.  Can anyone point me to documentation on the following:
> 
As I said before:
man <command name> |mpage -1 -bLetter -P<printername>
will print the man page as US letter.
run -bl 
to see what formats are possible.
Note no spaces after -b and -P
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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