X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: X-Sender: marchywka@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <47080008.5070507@bellsouth.net> From: "Mike Marchywka" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:56:26 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi, I updated by cygwin and now man doesn't seem to work. I tried man -d ld and then typed the display commands by hand, removing the "2>/dev/null" It appears the problem is this: $ /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc groff: can't find `DESC' file groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' based on man debug output: will try to write /var/cache/man/cat1/ls.1.bz2 if needed status from is_newer() = -2 using default preprocessor sequence found tbl(1) directive man: not executing command: (cd "/usr/share/man" && (echo ".pl 1100i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c '/usr/share/man/ man1/ls.1.gz'; echo ".\\\""; echo ".pl \n(nlu+10") | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nro ff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/less -isrR) All I was able to find on google was some stuff going back to 1999 and I didn't immediately find a configuration or other file for nroff. What should I do? Thanks. Mike Marchywka _________________________________________________________________ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks & Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/