Nroff error

Larry Rosenman ler at lerctr.org
Tue Nov 11 12:32:51 PST 2003



--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 15:28:03 -0500 Forrest Aldrich 
<forrie at forrie.com> wrote:

> Can someone explain what this error might be:
>
> nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man
> troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char
> *** Error code 1
>
> Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of
> manpages (they don't work).  Can't figure it out...
The following file is probably missing (drop the /stable/ from the path):

/stable/usr/share/tmac/tty-char.tmac

It can (probably) be copied from:

/stable/usr/src/contrib/groff/tmac/tty-char.tmac



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