From: jt AT boxhill DOT com (Jason Tishler) Subject: Re: man? - solved 6 Feb 1997 15:38:49 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32FA4A93.2AD8.cygnus.gnu-win32@boxhill.com> References: Reply-To: jt AT boxhill DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: "Who cares..." Original-CC: gnu-win32 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Who cares... wrote: > well i did what you said i got the following error > : troff: can't find `DESC' file > troff: fatal error: sorry, I can't continue If you are using the following version of troff: David Shochat wrote: > I figured out a command that achieves what I was looking for (how to > look at man pages), for example: > > troff -man -Tascii bash.1 | grotty | less > > The groff package I'm using is > http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/groff-1.10nt.zip then I can solve your problem. This version of troff will NOT find the tmac and font directories unless your current drive is the same as where it is installed. The following shell script is a crude man that works for me: --- begin of man --- export GROFF_FONT_PATH=/gnu-extras/share/groff/font export GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/gnu-extras/share/groff/tmac ROOTDIR=/glenda MANDIR=/gnu-win32/man/man1 cd $ROOTDIR troff -man -Tascii $MANDIR/$1.1 | grotty 2>nul: --- endof man --- where: /glenda is a gnu-win32 style mount where I installed gnu-win32 /gnu-win32 is the root of my gnu-win32 tree /gnu-extras is the root of my troff tree Hope the above helps. Jason -- Jason Tishler Phone: +1 (212) 989-4455 ext. 120 Box Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (212) 989-6817 161 Avenue of the Americas Email: jt AT boxhill DOT com New York, NY 10013 USA WWW: http://www.boxhill.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".