[Groff] Win32 groff 1.18 - can't find `DESC' file

[Peeter Pirn]

I checked the last few month's mailing list postings and didn't find an
answer to my problem. I'm running groff 1.18 for Windows downloaded from
SourceForge. My machine is Win 2000. Here's the command line that fails.

C:\PROG\xroff>troff -Tlp letter.nr
troff: can't find `DESC' file
troff: fatal error: sorry, I can't continue

I have this problem regardless of the numerous approaches I took:

(1) Installed according to instructions at the download site
(http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groffl.htm) in C:\Program
Files\Groff. This is not supposed to require any change of environment
variables, but the problem still occurs.

(2) Created environment variables with the following values:

GRAP_DEFINES=C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/share/grap
GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/share/groff/1.18/font
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/share/groff/site-tmac;C:/PROGRA~1/Groff/sh
are/groff/1.18/tmac

(3) Another variation on environment variables:

GRAP_DEFINES=C:/Program Files/Groff/share/grap
GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:/Program Files/Groff/share/groff/1.18/font
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:/Program Files/Groff/share/groff/site-tmac;C:/Program
Files/Groff/share/groff/1.18/tmac

(4) Another variation on environment variables:

GRAP_DEFINES=C:\Program Files\Groff\share\grap
GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:\Program Files\Groff\share\groff\1.18\font
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:\Program Files\Groff\share\groff\site-tmac;C:\Program
Files\Groff\share\groff\1.18\tmac

(5) Another variation on environment variables:

GRAP_DEFINES=C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\share\grap
GROFF_FONT_PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\share\groff\1.18\font
GROFF_TMAC_PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\share\groff\site-tmac;C:\PROGRA~1\Groff\sh
are\groff\1.18\tmac

The failure remains. Is there a way to get troff running?

Thanks.

Peeter Pirn