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paper size not honored by man -t command



I have just installed a Debian 3.0 system and have discovered a
perculiar thing. Whenever I print a manual page using the 'man -t
subject | lpr' command I always get a printout fomatted for a US
letter sized page although my /etc/papersize setting is set to A4
and my printcap also specifies A4 size paper. During installation,
I have always consistently specified A4 size whenever applicable
and at no time specified US-Letter size. Does troff (used by the -t
option) defaults to US-Letter or is there any other configuration
files that I have missed?

BTW, I am using a postscript printer and use LPRng and apsfilter on
my system. Although the manual page for lpr states that the -t
option is obsoleted, I find its the only way I can get a nicely
formatted printout of a man page - other methods results in a badly
formatted one using the awful fixed courier font.

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