[rescue] xman on IRIX

[Sheldon T. Hall]

"Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net> said

> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>
> > Lame as it is, I rather like xman ... but it won't read some man pages.
It
> > complains that it can't find the programs "tbl" or "neqn" and, as it
turns
> > out, neither can I.
> >
> > Can someone tell me what package I'm missing?
>
> You're missing the "Documentor's Workbench" unbundled package.  IRIX
> does not ship with a working [nt]roff.  You want to install groff and
> put this in /etc/profile:
>
>   MANFMTCMD="/path/to/groff -man -Tascii"
>   export MANFMTCMD
>
> As much as I almost never suggest using GNU software over the SGI
> equivalent, groff works as advertised, and the SGI software is
> unobtanium.

I got groff from freeware.sgi.com and it works fine.

Thanks a ton.

-Shel