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<H2><A NAME="s4">4. Miscellaneous problems</A><!--Danish!miscellaneous problems--><!--Danish!problems--></H2>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 Time zone</A>
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<!--Danish!problems!time zone--></H2>
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<P>Denmark is placed in the Central European Time zone (CET or MET,) which (in
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the winter) is equivalent to Greenwich Mean Time plus 1 (GMT+1.) You set
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the time zone on a Linux system by making a symbolic link between
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<CODE>/usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime</CODE> and the file in
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<CODE>/usr/lib/zoneinfo/</CODE> with a name corresponding to your zone or
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country. Danes will want to execute one of the commands
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<PRE>
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ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/MET /etc/localtime
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or
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ln -sf /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen /etc/localtime
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<P>This automatically sets Daylight Saving Time (GMT+2) in the summer.
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<P>You synchronize the system time with the CMOS clock by issuing the command
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<CODE>clock</CODE> as root. If your CMOS clock is set to GMT (a.k.a. UTC --- the
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standard on proper Unix systems) use
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clock -u -s
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or if your CMOS clock is set to local time use
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clock -s
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</PRE>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.2">4.2 A4 papersize</A>
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<!--Danish!problems!paper size--><!--Danish!problems!A4-sized paper--></H2>
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<P>
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<UL>
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<LI><CODE>ghostscript</CODE>:
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Add the command line option <CODE>-sPAPERSIZE=a4</CODE>.
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</LI>
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<LI><CODE>ghostview</CODE>: Define the following Xresource:
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Ghostview.pageMedia: A4
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</PRE>
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</LI>
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<LI><CODE>TeX/LaTeX</CODE>, <CODE>dvips</CODE>, <CODE>xdvi</CODE>: See the entry for
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TeX/LaTeX in section
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<A HREF="Danish-HOWTO-3.html#latex">International character sets in specific applications</A>.</LI>
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</UL>
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.3">4.3 Text file formats for other platforms</A>
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<!--Danish!problems!text file formats--><!--Danish!problems!DOS file formats--></H2>
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<P>You can translate files between an ISO-8859-1 formatted text file and
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e.g. a DOS text file using codepage 850 with the <CODE>recode</CODE> package. A
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DOS file called <CODE>foo.txt</CODE> would be translated into a proper Unix
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file with the command
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recode cp850:latin1 foo.txt
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<P><CODE>recode</CODE> is available as <CODE>recode-3.4.tar.gz</CODE> from all mirrors of
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<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/gnu/">the GNU archive</A>.
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