At 10:23 PM -0700 8/29/97, Colin Wood wrote:
>Armen Babikyan wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>> i often come up with this error when attempting to install man pages that i
>> don't know how to fix:
>> --cut here--
>> friction:~/icmpinfo-1.11# grep man1 *
>> DOC:   chmod 4555 icmpinfo. Copy icmpinfo.man to your
>>MANPATH/man1/icmpinfo.1
>> README:   chmod 4555 icmpinfo. Copy icmpinfo.man to your
>> MANPATH/man1/icmpinfo.1
>> friction:~/icmpinfo-1.11# cp icmpinfo.man /usr/local/man/man1/icmpinfo.1
>> friction:~/icmpinfo-1.11# man icmpinfo
>> man: Formatting manual page...
>> groff: can't find `DESC' file
>> groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
>> friction:~/icmpinfo-1.11#
>> --cut here--
>> did i forget to do something? :-\
>
>Have you installed the text package?  Many people don't, but it does
>include all of the support files for stuff like groff.
>

i installed everything (except the security tarball).
i tried "man groff", but that didn't work either. :-\
know of anything else i could try?
thanks,
  - a

 Armen Babikyan - armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu
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