Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:26:22 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Little problem with djgpp port of groff
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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.