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Subject: RE: blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:12:30 +0100
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On 07 October 2007 13:56, Mike Marchywka wrote:

> 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

>  What should I do?

  The usual things: cygcheck to see if any packages are listed as incomplete,
re-running setup.exe, looking in /etc/postinstall for scripts that aren't
marked .done, ...



    cheers,
      DaveK
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