From: bukinm AT inp DOT nsk DOT su (Michael Bukin)
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Subject: Re: Trying to view man-oriented docs.
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 02:21:34 GMT
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997 17:50:25 GMT, "Art S. Kagel"
<kagel AT ns1 DOT bloomberg DOT com> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Daniel TAUPIN wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> make that:
> 	groff -man mydoc.1
> 
> -mMACNAME passes description file tmac.MACNAME there is a sneakily named
> macro file named tmac.an which translates the man page macros.
> 

  I recall, that I have to put a lot in djgpp.env to make groff work.
This is written in some readme in groff package.
(Maybe you don't need this if djgpp is installed in c:\djgpp)

-*- part of djgpp.env -*-
[groff]
+GROFF_TMAC_PATH=.;%DJDIR%/share/groff/tmac
+GROFF_FONT_PATH=.;%DJDIR%/share/groff/font
+GROFF_TYPESETTER=ascii
-*- end of djgpp.env -*-

There is a lot more settings of this sort, but read readme
(readme.dos?).