[GnuWin32-Users] Groff 1.18 port not working as manreader?

[Soren A]

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Hello,

I downloaded and installed the build of groff-1.18 from
gnuwin32.sourceforge.net. Following the instructions, I tried to set
things up so that my MinGW/MSYS life ;-) could be enhanced by the
ability to read manpages. However it isn't working and the sound of the
error message I am getting is that something is wrong with the build. 

The error message is:

  groff.exe:fatal error: open stdout: No such file or directory

Here's what I tried to do:

  $ groff -mandoc -Tascii man1/gcc.1

where man1/gcc.1 is a real existing man page file.

I am using MSYS bash on WindowsNT4. My system environment looks like this:

     OSTYPE="msys"
     PAGER="/bin/less"
     PATH="
/g/apps/w32-usr/bin:
/bin:
/e/NT4/system32:
/e/NT4:
/f/java2/bin:
/f/TCL/bin:/E/usr/uutils/bin:
/E/usr/activeperl/bin:
/mingw/bin:
/E/usr/uutils/bin:
/E/usr/activeperl/bin"

     GRAP_DEFINES=/g/apps/w32-usr/share/grap
     GROFF_FONT_PATH=/g/apps/w32-usr/share/groff/1.18/font
     GROFF_TMAC_PATH="
/g/apps/w32-usr/share/groff/1.18/tmac:
/g/apps/w32-usr/share/groff/site-tmac"

  Contents of /g/apps/w32-usr/bin:
       47616 Sep 17 15:26 tr2latex.exe
       19968 Sep 17 14:43 deroff.exe
       39936 Sep 17 13:59 addftinfo.exe
       13312 Sep 17 13:59 pfbtops.exe
       50176 Sep 17 13:59 lkbib.exe
       49664 Sep 17 13:59 lookbib.exe
       43008 Sep 17 13:59 hpftodit.exe
       44544 Sep 17 13:59 tfmtodit.exe
       89600 Sep 17 13:59 grolbp.exe
      115712 Sep 17 13:59 post-grohtml.exe
       78336 Sep 17 13:59 grolj4.exe
       79872 Sep 17 13:58 grodvi.exe
       74752 Sep 17 13:58 grotty.exe
      109056 Sep 17 13:58 grops.exe
      104448 Sep 17 13:58 refer.exe
       42496 Sep 17 13:58 soelim.exe
       66048 Sep 17 13:58 grn.exe
      121856 Sep 17 13:58 eqn.exe
      192512 Sep 17 13:58 pic.exe
       95232 Sep 17 13:58 tbl.exe
       68608 Sep 17 13:58 groff.exe
      269824 Sep 17 13:58 troff.exe
      409600 Sep 17 12:04 grap.exe
      122862 Jul 21 15:15 groffer
        2248 Jul 21 15:15 eqn2graph
        2594 Jul 21 15:15 pic2graph
        3024 Jul 21 15:15 mmroff
        2057 Jul 21 15:15 nroff
        2580 Jul 21 15:15 grog
        8868 Jul 21 15:15 afmtodit
         278 Jul 21 14:47 neqn
       17448 Sep 14  2000 prag.awk

I have also tried "groff -man -Tascii man1/gcc.1 | less" and get the same 
result.

Kees?

I am attaching a touched-up version of the Groff announcement HTML WWW 
document for Kees Zeelenberg to review (essentially the changes improve 
readability, Kees) and for other readers to refer to, to get a quick 
background on what I am asking about.

   Thanks,
     Soren A

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