Re: [Groff] Fw: Installing/Running groff-1.21 on W7 x64

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 20:24:35 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden>
> 
> can you please comment?  Since I don't use Windows, I have no idea
> what the reason could be.
> 
> I am loading up a new Windows 7 x64 (64 bit) computer, To particular with 
> groff.  To a prior quiery about groff-1.20.1, Werner suggested I try
> Eli Zaretskii's groff-1.21 port from  
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/groff-1.21-w32-bin.zip/download.
> I did this, but now have a different error.  It appears that groff.exe cannot 
> access troff.exe as needed.  Following is some dialog.  Can anyone help?  
> Maybe Eli is reading this?
> ---------------------------- Version quiery shows "Permission denied" 
> ------------------
> smay8% which groff
> C:/Applications/groff-1.21/bin/groff.exe
> smay8% which troff
> C:/Applications/groff-1.21/bin/troff.exe
> smay8% groff -v
> GNU groff version 1.21
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
> 
> called subprograms:
> 
> groff: couldn't exec troff: Permission denied

I suggest not to install on C:, but on a different drive.

Also, wherever you install Groff, take ownership on that directory and
all of its files and subdirectories, don't leave them owned by the
Administrators group.

FWIW, that port works fine for me on Windows 7 64-bit, so there's no
incompatibilities I'm aware of.

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