Re: [Groff] Win32 groff 1.18 - can't find `DESC' file

[Kees Zeelenberg]

lp is not a device, so there is no folder devlp, and troff cannot
find the desc file.
BTW, it is probably better to use groff instead of troff

Kees Zeelenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peeter Pirn" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 10:03 AM
Subject: [Groff] Win32 groff 1.18 - can't find `DESC' file


> I checked the last few month's mailing list postings and didn't find an
> answer to my problem. I'm running groff 1.18 for Windows downloaded from
> SourceForge. My machine is Win 2000. Here's the command line that fails.
>
> C:\PROG\xroff>troff -Tlp letter.nr
> troff: can't find `DESC' file
> troff: fatal error: sorry, I can't continue
>
> I have this problem regardless of the numerous approaches I took:
>
> (1) Installed according to instructions at the download site
> (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm) in C:\Program
> Files\Groff. This is not supposed to require any change of environment
> variables, but the problem still occurs.
>
> (2) Created environment variables with the following values:
>
> GRAP_DEFINES=C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/share/grap
> GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/share/groff/1.18/font
>
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/share/groff/site-tmac;C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/sh
> are/groff/1.18/tmac
>
> (3) Another variation on environment variables:
>
> GRAP_DEFINES=C:/Program Files/Groff/share/grap
> GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:/Program Files/Groff/share/groff/1.18/font
> GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:/Program Files/Groff/share/groff/site-tmac;C:/Program
> Files/Groff/share/groff/1.18/tmac
>
> (4) Another variation on environment variables:
>
> GRAP_DEFINES=C:\Program Files\Groff\share\grap
> GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:\Program Files\Groff\share\groff\1.18\font
> GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:\Program Files\Groff\share\groff\site-tmac;C:\Program
> Files\Groff\share\groff\1.18\tmac
>
> (5) Another variation on environment variables:
>
> GRAP_DEFINES=C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\share\grap
> GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\share\groff\1.18\font
>
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\share\groff\site-tmac;C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\sh
> are\groff\1.18\tmac
>
> The failure remains. Is there a way to get troff running?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peeter Pirn
>
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