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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 18:39:11 -0700
From: Daniel TAUPIN <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
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To: DJGPP List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Trying to view man-oriented docs.
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My question about viewing the man-oriented files (such as foo.1, foo.3,
etc.) is actually treated in DJGPPFAQ.
But NONE of the solutions given work:

1. the groff.exe is available, but a command like "groff mydoc.1" fails:
  cannot find DESC file (although I copied one from the distrib in the
current directory)
  fatal error: invalid device 'ps' (or invalid devide 'ascii' if a sgive
the option -Tascii).

 Unfortunately, the doc groff.1n is not read by INFO... My solution is a
man.bat whose text is:

groff.exe -Tascii -Fc:\c\share\groff\font %1.* | more

 That was obvious, isn't it?

2. I got the man-pc.zip but:
   2.a The makefile is definitely NOT adaptet to djgpp/gcc (e.g. it says
#CC = cc)
   2.b event after error-free compilation, man finds the given man file
at the right place, but fails with a diag and yields nothing.
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