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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!sunmbx.netmbx.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!gmdtub!g386bsd!ats From: ats@g386bsd.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Net-BSD groff problem!!! Message-ID: <4175@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Date: 31 Oct 93 22:33:33 GMT References: <2b1375$tp5@genesis.ait.psu.edu> Sender: news@bigfoot.first.gmd.de Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin, Germany Lines: 27 In article <2b1375$tp5@genesis.ait.psu.edu>, D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu> wrote: > >I get to the line (from make) that says: > nroff -mandoc arithmetic.9 > arithmetic.0 > >Then the following errors occur: > > groff: can't find `DESC' file > groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' > *** Error code 3 I don't know if NetBSD uses the same paths as FreeBSD, so use the following with caution :-). Under FreeBSD it expects a tree for groff under /usr/share/groff_font. This directory should contain "devX100", "devX100-12", "devX75", "devX75-12", "devascii", "devdvi", "devlatin1", "devps". nroff uses "devascii" and this directory contains a "DESC" file. If you have less on your system, you can look at the binary of groff and search for the string "groff_font" and look where groff expect to find that directory. Maybe you have groff installed with other pathnames. -- ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856 Germany/Europe