Man page viewing problems

J. Johnston jeremy at cvs.freeworld.nu
Sat May 28 08:51:17 PDT 2005


Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>"J. Johnston" <jeremy at cvs.freeworld.nu> writes:
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>>After searching the mailing list I couldn't find much regarding this
>>issues (or manpages on groff)
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>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...
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>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".
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I viewed the pages on another machine.

>>%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'
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>Looks like the fonts files are missing.  Do you have the file
>/usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC? 
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Yes the file exists. I copied groff, troff, grotty from another machine 
replacing my local copies and now manpages work correctly.

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