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Subject: Recent build of FreeBSD with "groff" problems.... (manpages)
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Since about 2 days ago, successive rebuilds of FreeBSD-4.8 (current CVS) 
have resulted in a faulty manpage system, with errors like:

Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro file 
tty-char
Done.

Groff sometimes complains about ascii device, etc.

What's the scoop?