From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 28 15:51:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C1816A420 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 15:51:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeremy@cvs.freeworld.nu) Received: from smart-serv.net (smart-serv.net [64.251.71.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F5E43DEA for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 15:38:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jeremy@cvs.freeworld.nu) Received: (qmail 56369 invoked by uid 0); 28 May 2005 15:37:56 -0000 Received: from 64.251.71.178 by smart-serv.net (envelope-from , uid 0) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.83/839. spamassassin: 3.0.2. Clear:RC:1(64.251.71.178):. Processed in 0.06787 secs); 28 May 2005 15:37:56 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: jeremy@cvs.freeworld.nu via smart-serv.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(64.251.71.178):. Processed in 0.06787 secs) Received: from smart-serv.net (HELO ?192.168.1.248?) (jeremy@64.251.71.178) by smart-serv.net with SMTP; 28 May 2005 15:37:56 -0000 Message-ID: <42989092.5020305@cvs.freeworld.nu> Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 08:38:58 -0700 From: "J. Johnston" Organization: SmartServ Hosting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050205) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42972F2C.7020408@cvs.freeworld.nu> <44zmuffm2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44zmuffm2w.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Man page viewing problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 15:51:17 -0000 Lowell Gilbert wrote: >"J. Johnston" 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" > > >