hi greg,
yes, QGIS is good - I started with that but, in my stubbornness, decided
to see if I could master GRASS without any 'shortcuts' hehe.. when I
initially set up my GRASS install too, I was actually doing it through a
terminal/command-line... I don't think the GUI / point-and-click option
was fully functional then (a coupla years ago)...The upside of that
method meant it was one-step-at-a-time, and the terminal berated me if I
got something awry like directory, resolution, projection, etc...
if you find something like QGIS that makes your GRASS entry easier, go
for it. About the only 'down' thing I found with QGIS was it took some
time to refresh when I was using some of my high-res pics, whereas this
seemed less of an issue directly in GRASS. But it's probably improved a
lot in last year or so... I'm due to play with it again soon 
Cheers,
shane.
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 23:48 -0800, Greg Corning wrote:
Shane,
Thanks. That was much more than two cents' worth. I am playing
around with things now, and the main thing, I think, is eliminating
the spaces in file paths. Also, I have found by accident in the
process of following a tutorial on QGIS that QGIS is a great interface
for working with GRASS.
Thank you for answering my question.
Catlike
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Shane Litherland
<litherland-farm@bigpond.com> wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I have no probs with my GRASS having been set up (on Ubuntu)
> at /home/my-home/GIS/GRASSdata, which, for you, might be equivalent to
> c:/users/path-to-your-folders/GIS... (sorry, haven't used that OS for
> awhile)...
>
> I'd also recently installed it on a colleagues laptop, I think they were
> running Vista or 7... I think I put the GRASSdata somewhere on their
> user's desktop... I was in a rush, and struggling to remember my way
> around windows so unfortunately can't recall much of the detail to help
> you. But the program did work fine.
> I was already aware that whitespace in folder/directory names is a bad
> practice (at least in my experiences.. even though i think windows still
> works ok with them, your GRASS installation, having been born from
> another family, still might not like them) so in my previous example I
> know I actively avoided that. if_you_insist_on_spaces,...be\ prepared\
> to\ possibly\ do\things\ differently...
>
> Did you install GRASS, then try moving the folder location? that may
> have confused some of the startup settings and cause your crash?? not
> sure if/how to edit startup stuff if this is your case, might be best to
> try clean install to your desired location.. unless you've already tried
> this.
>
> Maybe, if you don't get it solved 'neatly', a sym-link from C: to where
> you prefer to keep GRASS??
>
> my two cents 
> -shane
>
>