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PAPERCONF(1)							  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	speci‐
       fied  by	 the  PAPERCONF	 environment  variable,	 at  the  contects  of
       /etc/papersize 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)

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