How to print man pages on letter size paper

[John Summerfied]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 09:43:45AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> 
>>When I print a man page by using
>>        man -t foo | lpr
>>it comes out formatted for A4 size paper.  How can I force 
>>the output to be for letter size (8-1/2 by 11 in) paper?
>>
>>This doesn't look as easy as it ought to be.
>>
>>jon
> 
> There seem to be two possibilities. Go into the cups web interface and
> change the options of your default printer to letter and not A4.
> 
> Alternately use mpage in place of lpr and set the page size with the -b
> option.

I wouldn't expect either to work especially well as the man command is 
producing postscript for A4 paper.

Best solution is for USA to conform to world standards:-)

Best workaround, read /etc/profile.d/lang.sh for hints on what can be 
set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n


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