Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:50:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Art S. Kagel" <kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com>
To:	Daniel TAUPIN <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
Cc:	DJGPP List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Trying to view man-oriented docs.
In-Reply-To:	<33DFECBE.7958@lps.u-psud.fr>
Message-Id:	<Pine.D-G.3.91.970730134809.8180A-100000@dg1>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Daniel TAUPIN wrote:

> My question about viewing the man-oriented files (such as foo.1, foo.3,
> etc.) is actually treated in DJGPPFAQ.
> But NONE of the solutions given work:
> 
> 1. the groff.exe is available, but a command like "groff mydoc.1" fails:
>   cannot find DESC file (although I copied one from the distrib in the
> current directory)
>   fatal error: invalid device 'ps' (or invalid devide 'ascii' if a sgive
> the option -Tascii).

make that:
	groff -man mydoc.1

-mMACNAME passes description file tmac.MACNAME there is a sneakily named
macro file named tmac.an which translates the man page macros.

Art S. Kagel, kagel AT bloomberg DOT com

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