From: Myknees AT aol DOT com
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 19:22:20 EST
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re: (djgpp) groff and viewing (non-djgpp) man pages
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In a message dated 98-02-02 12:36:39 EST, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il writes:
>  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.

DESC was in the right place.  The problem was simply that I hadn't noticed the
README file.  Thank you for pointing it out.

>  > 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.

It seems to be working fine now. 

--Ed (Myknees)