Re: Groff incorrectly installed in SuSE Linux 7.3 ?

Togan Muftuoglu writes:

* Tor Sigurdsson; on 19 Apr, 2002 wrote:

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- * tosi@gandalf:~/verkefni.Forritun/ftrans/ftrans> groff -man ftrans.1 >ftrans.1.ps * grops:<standard input>:1: can't open `/etc/papersize' *

I thought setting this paarmeter sorts it (SuSE7.X 8.0 has not arrived yet :-(

# If the correct page size isn't found in your printcap # you can set GROFF_PAGESIZE to the following values # letter, legal, a4, or b5 # supported by both groff *and* ghostscript # GROFF_PAGESIZE="a4"

No, unfortunately it doesn't. SuSEconfig.groff is a bit broken in SuSE Linux 7.3. It's fixed in SuSE Linux 8.0. On SuSE Linux 7.3 just do: echo 'a4' > /etc/papersize Actually there is no difference whether you do that or not, it avoids the "can't open `/etc/papersize'" message. -- Mike Fabian http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。