[GnuWin32-Users] RE: [Mingw-users] Groff 1.18 port not working as manreader?

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: min...@li...
> [mailto:min...@li...]On Behalf Of Soren A
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:54 PM
>
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> Hello,
>
> I downloaded and installed the build of groff-1.18 from
> gnuwin32.sourceforge.net. Following the instructions, I tried to set
> things up so that my MinGW/MSYS life ;-) could be enhanced by the
> ability to read manpages. However it isn't working and the sound of the
> error message I am getting is that something is wrong with the build.
>
> The error message is:
>
>   groff.exe:fatal error: open stdout: No such file or directory
>
> Here's what I tried to do:
>
>   $ groff -mandoc -Tascii man1/gcc.1
>
> where man1/gcc.1 is a real existing man page file.
>
> I am using MSYS bash on WindowsNT4. My system environment looks like this:
>
>      OSTYPE="msys"
>      PAGER="/bin/less"
>      PATH="
> /g/apps/w32-usr/bin:
> /bin:
> /e/NT4/system32:
> /e/NT4:
> /f/java2/bin:
> /f/TCL/bin:/E/usr/uutils/bin:
> /E/usr/activeperl/bin:
> /mingw/bin:
> /E/usr/uutils/bin:
> /E/usr/activeperl/bin"
>
>      GRAP_DEFINES=/g/apps/w32-usr/share/grap
>      GROFF_FONT_PATH=/g/apps/w32-usr/share/groff/1.18/font
>      GROFF_TMAC_PATH="
> /g/apps/w32-usr/share/groff/1.18/tmac:
> /g/apps/w32-usr/share/groff/site-tmac"
>
>   Contents of /g/apps/w32-usr/bin:
>        47616 Sep 17 15:26 tr2latex.exe
>        19968 Sep 17 14:43 deroff.exe
>        39936 Sep 17 13:59 addftinfo.exe
>        13312 Sep 17 13:59 pfbtops.exe
>        50176 Sep 17 13:59 lkbib.exe
>        49664 Sep 17 13:59 lookbib.exe
>        43008 Sep 17 13:59 hpftodit.exe
>        44544 Sep 17 13:59 tfmtodit.exe
>        89600 Sep 17 13:59 grolbp.exe
>       115712 Sep 17 13:59 post-grohtml.exe
>        78336 Sep 17 13:59 grolj4.exe
>        79872 Sep 17 13:58 grodvi.exe
>        74752 Sep 17 13:58 grotty.exe
>       109056 Sep 17 13:58 grops.exe
>       104448 Sep 17 13:58 refer.exe
>        42496 Sep 17 13:58 soelim.exe
>        66048 Sep 17 13:58 grn.exe
>       121856 Sep 17 13:58 eqn.exe
>       192512 Sep 17 13:58 pic.exe
>        95232 Sep 17 13:58 tbl.exe
>        68608 Sep 17 13:58 groff.exe
>       269824 Sep 17 13:58 troff.exe
>       409600 Sep 17 12:04 grap.exe
>       122862 Jul 21 15:15 groffer
>         2248 Jul 21 15:15 eqn2graph
>         2594 Jul 21 15:15 pic2graph
>         3024 Jul 21 15:15 mmroff
>         2057 Jul 21 15:15 nroff
>         2580 Jul 21 15:15 grog
>         8868 Jul 21 15:15 afmtodit
>          278 Jul 21 14:47 neqn
>        17448 Sep 14  2000 prag.awk
>
> I have also tried "groff -man -Tascii man1/gcc.1 | less" and get the same
> result.
>
> Kees?
>
> I am attaching a touched-up version of the Groff announcement HTML WWW
> document for Kees Zeelenberg to review (essentially the changes improve
> readability, Kees) and for other readers to refer to, to get a quick
> background on what I am asking about.
>
>    Thanks,
>      Soren A

I use that distribution of groff all the time, so it does work. However,
I'm not sure if it works under msys. You may want to try it from the
Windows cmd/command shell.

Randy.