How to print man pages on letter size paper

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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.
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