The Linux Danish HOWTO: Miscellaneous problems

Denmark is placed in the Central European Time zone (CET or MET), which is equivalent to Greenwich Middle Time plus 1 (GMT+1). You set the time zone on a Linux system by making a symbolic link between /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime and the file in /usr/lib/zoneinfo/ with a name corresponding to your zone. Danes will want to execute the command


ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/MET /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime

You synchronize the system time with the CMOS clock by issuing the command clock. If your CMOS clock is set to Greenwich time (the standard on proper Unix systems) use


clock -u -s

or if your CMOS clock is set to local time use


clock -s

4.2 A4 papersize

- in ghostscript: Add the command line option -sPAPERSIZE=a4.
- in ghostview: Define the following Xresource:
Ghostview.pageMedia: A4
- in dvips: Edit the file /usr/lib/texmf/dvips/config.ps or .dvips.
- in xdvi: Define the Xresource
XDvi.paper: a4
- in TeX/LaTeX: See the entry for TeX/LaTeX in section on specific applications.

4.3 Text file formats and other platforms.

You can translate files between an ISO-8859-1 formatted text file and e.g. a DOS text file using codepage 850 with the recode package. A DOS file called foo.txt would be translated into a proper Unix file with the command


recode  cp850:latin1 foo.txt

recode is available as recode-3.4.tar.gz from all mirrors of prep.ai.mit.edu.

4. Miscellaneous problems

4.1 Time zone.

4.2 A4 papersize

4.3 Text file formats and other platforms.