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Date:      Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:14:46 -0400
From:      Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with groff
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20030910141402.01ba3e28@192.168.1.1>
In-Reply-To: <20030910180658.GC47098@sunbay.com>
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At 02:06 PM 9/10/2003, you wrote:
>[ Please put replies after the quoted text, not before. ]
>
>On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:58:51PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> > If I move /usr/local/share/groff to /usr/local/share/groff.old, and run 
> the
> > man command, I get this error:
> >
> > # man ls
> > Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
> > /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
> >
>/usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC, is it there?
>
>If it exists, does the problem manifest itself if you try this:
>
>/usr/bin/env -i PATH=/bin:/usr/bin TERM=cons25 man ls
>
>If not, look what's wrong with your environment.
[ ... ]

/usr/share/groff_font/devascii/DESC is there.

I tried using "man" under a different account and still have the same 
problems, so I don't think it's the ENV, since I'm not setting anything odd 
other than just $PATH.


_F 



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