Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 08:38:58 -0700 From: "J. Johnston" <jeremy@cvs.freeworld.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Man page viewing problems Message-ID: <42989092.5020305@cvs.freeworld.nu> In-Reply-To: <44zmuffm2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <42972F2C.7020408@cvs.freeworld.nu> <44zmuffm2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: >"J. Johnston" <jeremy@cvs.freeworld.nu> writes: > > > >>After searching the mailing list I couldn't find much regarding this >>issues (or manpages on groff) >> >> > >Well, if you can't show man pages, then you would have a problem with >reading the ones about the formatter for the man pages... > >But the documentation for groff is in info pages anyway; the man pages >for it are only a secondary output of the info. Try "info groff". > > > I viewed the pages on another machine. >>%man make.conf >>Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file >>/usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' >>Failed. >>/usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file >>/usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' >> >> > >Looks like the fonts files are missing. Do you have the file >/usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC? > > Yes the file exists. I copied groff, troff, grotty from another machine replacing my local copies and now manpages work correctly. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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