Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/07/23/06:26:35
On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Olivier Perron wrote:
> When processing a particular troff file, groff reports following warning:
> /usr/share/groff/tmac/tmac.an:326: can't find macro file `man.local'
That's my fault, sorry: the Groff distribution gro110b.zip has the name
of that file truncated to DOS 8+3 limits, so Groff barfs on Windows 9X.
To solve the problem, find the file %DJDIR%/share/groff/tmac/man.loc and
rename it to man.local. After that, Groff should be happy.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but at the time Groff was ported, I
didn't have access to Windows 95, so I needed to package the archives
without actually being able to check whether all long names in the zip
files are correct. (Frankly, I'm surprised I only got one file name
wrong, and only in the Groff distribution.)
> But when processed by less, the output of groff seems to be correct.
This doesn't mean anything. A particular file might not need anything
from man.local, but Groff always loads it, for the case that it does.
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