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Subject: blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:56:26 -0400
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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

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