Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:10:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Daniel Taupin wrote:

> C:\DJGPP>man gcc
> Reformatting page.  Wait...c:/djgpp/bin/man.exe: c:/djgpp/bin/less.exe
> or groff.exe -man -Tascii: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> 
> Of course gcc.1 does exist:

It doesn't say that gcc.1 doesn't exist.  It says either less.exe or
groff.exe doesn't exist (it cannot easily know which one is missing
because it runs a pipe with both of them).

> but "groff"does not. Is this the explanation? 

Yes, you need to install Groff to be able to display unformatted man
pages.  I believe the README file in the distribution explains that.

Also, I think there is a problem in the GCC distribution: the *b.zip
files should come with formatted man pages, so that users will not
need to install Groff just to read the docs.