Tex doesn't obey /etc/papersize ?

To: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Tex doesn't obey /etc/papersize ?
From: Gregory Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Date: 11 May 2006 21:08:13 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 87vescvyma.fsf@stark.xeocode.com>

I'm trying to update a tex document and I'm having trouble because tex seems
to be defaulting to A4. But I have /etc/papersize set to "letter". 

-- 
greg

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