Re: RH8.0 printed Man pages (wrong paper size)

2002-11-22 Thread Paul Campbell
I have groff 1.17.2 on RH 8 that I bought locally. where did yours come from? At 12:30 AM 11/22/02, you wrote: >Thanks for the reply. > >I had done a bit more digging, and between that and your comment I >have a solution to the problem. > >IT WOULD SURE BE NICE IF THEY DOCUMENTED THIS SOMEPLACE...

Re: RH8.0 printed Man pages (wrong paper size)

2002-11-22 Thread clemens
Thanks for the reply. I had done a bit more digging, and between that and your comment I have a solution to the problem. IT WOULD SURE BE NICE IF THEY DOCUMENTED THIS SOMEPLACE... RH7.3 had groff 1.17.2, and in the file /usr/share/groff/1.17.2/font/devps/DESC the variable paperlenght is

Re: RH8.0 printed Man pages (wrong paper size)

2002-11-21 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:06:25 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, another RH8.0 gotcha... > > If you do a > man -t | lpr > > man uses groff (I assume) to format the page and generate postscript > to pass to the printer. > > But SOMEWHERE groff is set to default to A4 paper (rather than

RH8.0 printed Man pages (wrong paper size)

2002-11-21 Thread clemens
OK, another RH8.0 gotcha... If you do a man -t | lpr man uses groff (I assume) to format the page and generate postscript to pass to the printer. But SOMEWHERE groff is set to default to A4 paper (rather than letter). (Do a man page as above and you will see that the top line of th