Jack Gillis wrote: > Under Mandrake 7.2, I issued the following command to print a man > page: (It has worked under Red Hat and SuSE.) > > man -t mkfs | lpr > > and got the following messages: > > /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file > /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ps' > Error executing formatting or display command. > System command (cd /usr/share/man ; /usr/bin/bzip2 -c -d > /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.bz2 | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -Tps > -mandoc) exited with status 3. > No manual entry for man > lpr: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. > > This occurs when I am root, usr or su. > > Also if I just type groff, I get the first two lines. > > Can someone tell me what I need to do to make it right if possible under > 7.2? > > Thank you very much. I also previously used this command to print man pages. However since converting over to Linux-Mandrake and Kde I've been using the "help" program to view, read and print the various manuals and man pages. Additionally within this program you get the formatted and color printed pages, if you have a color printer. Just what the problem with the old command line way of formatting and printed I haven't figured out but since I now exclusively use help program I haven't spent much time working on the problem. Try Help you may like it. Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587
