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Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> writes:

> I just rebuilt the entire system from CVS, and still get this problem:
> 
> # man man
> Formatting page, please wait...troff: fatal error: can't find macro
> file tty-char
> Done.
> 
> This can't be that complex of an issue, which is probably why I'm
> still figuring it out.   Doesn't the 'man' command need to find its
> tmac files in /usr/share/tmac?  If so, then there's something wrong
> with the man configuration somewhere (something I'm not familiar with).
> 
> Any pointers would really be appreciated, nobody else responded.


Hmm.  Not exactly my thing, but what happens if you try the formatting
directly?  

zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz |nroff -man