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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
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- Subject: Re: Papersize for man -t (ptroff)
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 06:31:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec7.110448.18834@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> <1gab4dINN16m@uniko.uni-koblenz.de>
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- In article <1gab4dINN16m@uniko.uni-koblenz.de> droege@infko.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) writes:
- >> 2. What default can I set to format the manpages in A4 and then print it in A4?
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- > Call ptroff with the additional option "-l 11in".
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- just in case you didnt see it in the man page for man,
- you can set an environment variable called TROFF
- to be the formatting command invoked by man -t
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- so you can do something like
- setenv TROFF ptroff -man -t -l 11in
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- you may have to experiment to see if the -man and -t are required,
- but I've used this successfully on lesser computers
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