From: grantl AT deerinet DOT nb DOT ca ("Grant Leslie") Subject: Re: man & ncurses problems 7 Feb 1997 01:38:08 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: "GNU-WIN32" , X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1160 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > As of recently, man (and troff) have been giving me problems. It's > giving the following error: > > /usr/local/bin/groff:/usr/local/lib/groff/font/devlatin1/DESC:1: > illegal input character code `13' > > repeating a few thousand (or so) times. I got the allman.tar.gz > someone mentioned earlier from their ftp site at ftp.deerinet.nb.ca. > > I can't think of changing anything in my setup. I first installed > the allman package after remounting everything in binary mode. It > worked then, and I didn't use man pages for a few weeks. I tried > reinstalling it, but no luck. That would be because I compiled the groff package with cygwin mounted in text mode. I'm not sure why it would even work the first time you tried it though?? The problem is all the man source files seem to be "Text Mode" files, the thing is handled fine since I never changed the access mode to binary for groff, so it strips the . When you mounted under binary mode, when it would open the files, it would be opening them in binary mode, and the 's wouldn't get stripped, sending straight into groff, causing it to complain about all the " illegal input character code `13' ". Since the man source files all contain the 's I never bothered playing with this, since I'm mounted as text mode still. I imagine would be a rather simple task to get the sources yourself, and add a couple lines to handle the 's. I got the source from ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu , I can't remember the exact dir names, but, it's in the slackware linux sources directories - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".