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- From: t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken)
- Subject: problems with man
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.051026.15690@microsoft.com>
- Date: 01 Sep 92 05:10:26 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA 98052
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- I'm having some troubles with man. If I try 'man man', I get
- /usr/bin/gtbl: No such file or directory
- ***nroff: illegal switch Tascii
-
- However, if I do 'man dup', I get
- syntax error near `|'
- -c:2: ` | /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc | /usr/bin/less -s)'
-
- I have groff, nroff, less and the man pages in the correct directories
- but I don/t have gtbl and I can't find it anywhere. So I thought
- "Okay, I'll try using nroff on it's own." So I did 'nroff -man /usr/man/man.1'
- and spews loads of '***nroff: undefined macro....' errors all over the place
- at me. Arrrrgh. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
-
- Cheers.
-
- Piers.
-
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