What might go wrong here is that Groff is not an Msys application but a native Windows one. So it does not understand the GROFF_...._PATH's when they are in the Msys form such as /g/.... Perhaps an MS-Windows bat file which sets these environment variables and then calls groff, will work. I don't use Msys so I cannot try myself.
Kees "Soren A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht news:Xns92B7B65D63960sorenagmaneSH@;80.91.224.249... > [Attached HTML is *NOT* an HTML-email version of this message, but a > separate background-info document. Get straight on that before you > complain at me about "posting HTML to Mailing Lists"] > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
