[GnuWin32-Users] Re: Groff 1.18 port not working as manreader?

[Soren A <sor...@fa...>]

"Kees Zeelenberg" <kz...@us...> wrote in
news:00d301c28069$bd448160$246afb3e@alpha: 

> What might go wrong here is that Groff is not an Msys application but
> a native Windows one. So it does not understand the GROFF_...._PATH's
> when they are in the Msys form such as /g/.... Perhaps an MS-Windows
> bat file which sets these environment variables and then calls groff,
> will work. 

Yes, you were right. OK, so I have this working well enough now -- 
congratulations on having added Groff to all your other ports. I dub you 
The Prodigious Porter! -- but I am wondering if you can help me finish the 
work so that some noisy complaints are quieted:

On completion, after hitting 'q' to terminate 'less' paging, I get

  grotty:<standard input>:41362:fatal error: output error

And also before the 'less' paging begins (it gets wiped out) I get these 
lines:

   grotty:<standard input>:19: X command without `tty:' tag ignored
   grotty:<standard input>:24: X command without `tty:' tag ignored

So 'grotty' isn't happy, do you happen to know what flags to pass through 
to 'grotty' to make it shut up?

  Thanks!
     Soren A

P.S. An implementation of `man' for MinGW-MSYS, as an sh function:

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  function man
  {
    PATH="/g/apps/w32-usr/bin:$PATH"
    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'
    export GROFF_FONT_PATH GROFF_TMAC_PATH GRAP_DEFINES
    local ManFiles ManSect
    if [ x"$2" != x ]; then
  	ManSect="$1";  shift
    else ManSect='[0-9]'
    fi
    if [ ! -f "$*" ]
  	then if [ -d /mingw ]; then
  # How do we tell 'find' that we want only one result?
  	  ManFiles=`find /mingw/ -iregex ".*/man${ManSect}/${1}\.${ManSect}"` 
  	fi
  	if [ x"$ManFiles" = x ]; then
  	  ManFiles=`find . / -iregex ".*/man${ManSect}/${1}\.${ManSect}"` 
  	fi
    fi
    if [ x"$ManFiles" != x ]; then
      groff -mandoc -Tascii $ManFiles | less -JQCMR
    else echo "No man files with stem "$1" found. Quitting."
    fi
  }
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