RE: blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC

On 07 October 2007 13:56, Mike Marchywka wrote: > Hi, > I updated by cygwin and now man doesn't seem to work. > I tried man -d ld and then typed the display commands by hand, removing the > "2>/dev/null" > It appears the problem is this: > > $ /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc > groff: can't find `DESC'

blank man pages after update, nroff can't find DESC

Hi, I updated by cygwin and now man doesn't seem to work. I tried man -d ld and then typed the display commands by hand, removing the "2>/dev/null" It appears the problem is this: $ /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc groff: can't find `DESC' file groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' based on man