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.

Hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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