From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: (djgpp) groff and viewing (non-djgpp) man pages
Date: 2 Feb 1998 06:30:05 GMT
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After reading much documentation, I think I must admit that I am
stuck.  I have installed perl 5.004_02 on my machine, and I got a lot
of documentation in the "man" format.

Man is working well for viewing most documentation, the documentation of the
djgpp distribution, e.g. "man groff" or "man man".  I have the MANPATH set in
djgpp.env,  and I added the directory where the perl man pages are to the
MANPATH.  

When I type the following command, this is what happens (my prompt ends with
a period.) :

C:\elc\perl\man3  .man -d io
man version 1.2: debugging output ON
Looking in `c:/elc/djgpp/info' for `io.[!iz]*'
Looking in `/elc/perl/man3' for `io.[!iz]*'
`/elc/perl/man3/io.3': accepted
Added page `/elc/perl/man3/io.3'
Chdir to `/elc/perl'
Reformatting page.  Wait...Running `groff.exe -man -Tascii /elc/perl/man3/io.3
|
 c:/elc/djgpp/bin/less.exe'
c:/elc/djgpp/bin/groff.exe: can't find `DESC' file
c:/elc/djgpp/bin/groff.exe:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'

C:\elc\perl\man3  .


I couldn't find out what to do to solve that problem.  I have tried
using info to view the io.3 file, but info says that there is no top
node.  Copying the files to the ...djgpp\info directory didn't change the error
message.

It would be nice to be able to use the tools that are
already on my machine to view the man pages.

Any help would be appreciated.

--Ed (Myknees)