Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:36:47 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Myknees <myknees AT aol DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: (djgpp) groff and viewing (non-djgpp) man pages
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On 2 Feb 1998, Myknees wrote:

> c:/elc/djgpp/bin/groff.exe: can't find `DESC' file
> c:/elc/djgpp/bin/groff.exe:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'

This indicates that you have a problem with your Groff installation.  The 
file DESC should be in c:/elc/djgpp/share/groff/font/devascii/ directory, 
and the environment variables which are mentioned in the file 
gnu/groff-1.10/djgpp/README (it comes with the Groff distribution) should 
be set correctly.  Please check these points.  I suggest to re-read that 
README file and make sure everything is set up as it says, and if that 
doesn't help, reinstall Groff from gro110b.zip.

> 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.

Info just calls `man' which again tries to run Groff, which fails.  You 
need to find out why does Groff fail.