Somehow /etc/papersize was changed

[Shaul Karl]

Just wanted to report that somehow the file /etc/papersize was changed from a4 
to letter.
Since I am following unstable quite closely I suspect that some package did 
that but I can not verify that or point to a suspected package.

Re: /etc/papersize?

[joost witteveen]

> 
> Could someone email a sample /etc/papersize file on this list?
> 
> Yves.
> 
If you usually want "a4" sized paper, then /etc/papersize will simply
contain the two characters "a" and "4".
If you like us letter format better, the /etc/papersize file will
be much more complicated, as it then has to contain the six
letters "l", "e", "t", "t", "e", and "r".

BTW, gs will recognice much more than these to (about 30 or so), but
I guess "a4" and "letter" are the only two that all packages that
use /etc/papersize recognise.


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/etc/papersize?

[Yves Arrouye]

Could someone email a sample /etc/papersize file on this list?

Yves.

/etc/papersize?

[Susan G. Kleinmann]

Matt Birkholz said:
> I do not have an /etc/papersize and I do not find it in unstable/Contents
> nor in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* (neither in a package file list nor in an
> installation script).  It seems a pity to have gone to the trouble of
> supporting /etc/papersize if it never gets created.  Perhaps I am missing
> it because I am running 0.93B4 upgraded to 1.1?

I am running a 1.1 distribution that I made on a clean disk.  I have most
of the Debian packages loaded onto this system.  The only packages that I
found which created or checked for /etc/papersize are tgif and a2gs. 

> Does latex/dvips support /etc/papersize?  What is the default papersize?

No, I don't think latex/dvips support /etc/papersize.  At least, I find 
myself having to go in and edit files like config.ps, etc.  

Cheers,
Susan Kleinmann
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/etc/papersize?

[birkholz%dagobah]

   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen)
   Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST)
   Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org

   [...]
   /usr/bin/gs reads /etc/papersize, possibly adds the correct papersize to
   the argumentlist, and then executes /usr/bin/gs-papersize.

I do not have an /etc/papersize and I do not find it in unstable/Contents
nor in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* (neither in a package file list nor in an
installation script).  It seems a pity to have gone to the trouble of
supporting /etc/papersize if it never gets created.  Perhaps I am missing
it because I am running 0.93B4 upgraded to 1.1?

Does latex/dvips support /etc/papersize?  What is the default papersize?

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/etc/papersize?

[birkholz%dagobah]

   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen)
   Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 15:03:45 +0200 (MET DST)
   Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org

   [...]
   In order to process your /etc/papersize, I had to add a wrapper
   programme to the gs package (and call this wrapper programme "gs",
   so that it gets executed when you type "gs"). /usr/bin/gs
   reads /etc/papersize, possibly adds the correct papersize to the
   argumentlist, and then executes /usr/bin/gs-papersize.

I do not have an /etc/papersize and I do not find it in unstable/Contents
nor in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* (neither in a package file list nor in an
installation script).  It seems a pity to have gone to the trouble of
supporting /etc/papersize if it never gets created.  Perhaps I am missing
it because I am running 0.93B4 upgraded to 1.1?

Does latex/dvips support /etc/papersize?  What is the default papersize?

   If you've got a better name please tell me.

It does not matter much to me.  You mentioned it and I was puzzled.

It wasn't easier to edit the argv[] in gs's main()?

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