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From: Ade Wilkinson <apw@office.lemon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: troff: fatal error: font number 1 not a valid font
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:23:52 GMT
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Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but it appeared to 
be a logical place to start anyway.

I've installed a NetBSD 1.2 system and appear to have problems
with a few of the manual pages.  When I try to view some pages, 
I get the following error message:

troff: fatal error: font number 1 not a valid font

I would get this message when I was viewing, for example, the 
procmailrc manual page.  Having looked through the page source,
there doesn't appear to be any .Ft commands that are trying to
change the font and I have compared /etc/man.conf against another
system that does not have the same problems.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Regards, Ade.