Man page viewing problems
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sat May 28 07:43:05 PDT 2005
"J. Johnston" <jeremy at cvs.freeworld.nu> writes:
> After searching the mailing list I couldn't find much regarding this
> issues (or manpages on groff)
Well, if you can't show man pages, then you would have a problem with
reading the ones about the formatter for the man pages...
But the documentation for groff is in info pages anyway; the man pages
for it are only a secondary output of the info. Try "info groff".
> %man make.conf
> Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
> /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
> Failed.
> /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
> /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
Looks like the fonts files are missing. Do you have the file
/usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC?
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