[GRASS-user] Runing grass inside Msys console

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Hi,

I just installed WinGrass (great job by the way) but in order to run
GRASS inside the MSYS console I have to explicitly go to the directory
were grass63 is at. IOW, the grass63 startup script is not in the path
environment. Is it possible to put the startup script in the path
environment, along with other utilities like gdalinfo?

Cheers
Daniel

2

Daniel,

I just installed WinGrass (great job by the way) but in order to run
GRASS inside the MSYS console I have to explicitly go to the directory
were grass63 is at. IOW, the grass63 startup script is not in the path
environment. Is it possible to put the startup script in the path
environment, along with other utilities like gdalinfo?

Normally, if you launch the GRASS MSYS Console command from the Start->GRASS menu, you will automatically open a MSYS session "ready" to start GRASS with the paths set to all the needed utilities. This said, the installer has a bug (already fixed in trunk, but not still "built" with a new a binary release), that sometimes makes it fail to correctly define the username on XP machines: that implies that the grass63 script is not put in the folder where it should be (that is .\GRASS\msys\home\"YOUR_USERNAME").

Please, check if you have the grass63 script and the .grassrc6 file in .\GRASS\msys\home\"YOUR_USERNAME"; if not, look for them in .\GRASS\msys\home (and subfolders) and move them to .\GRASS\msys\home\"YOUR_USERNAME".

Regards,

Marco

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This is exactly what happened. I have the .grassrc6 in my home dir
(grass/msys/home/<username>) but the grass63 startup script is in
grass/msys/home/C/Documents and Settings/<my_name>/grass63.

I fixed this by making a symbolic link. Did not know I could just move
the script around.

Daniel

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Marco Pasetti <marcopstt@gmail.com> wrote:

Daniel,

I just installed WinGrass (great job by the way) but in order to run
GRASS inside the MSYS console I have to explicitly go to the directory
were grass63 is at. IOW, the grass63 startup script is not in the path
environment. Is it possible to put the startup script in the path
environment, along with other utilities like gdalinfo?

Normally, if you launch the GRASS MSYS Console command from the Start->GRASS
menu, you will automatically open a MSYS session "ready" to start GRASS with
the paths set to all the needed utilities. This said, the installer has a
bug (already fixed in trunk, but not still "built" with a new a binary
release), that sometimes makes it fail to correctly define the username on
XP machines: that implies that the grass63 script is not put in the folder
where it should be (that is .\GRASS\msys\home\"YOUR_USERNAME").

Please, check if you have the grass63 script and the .grassrc6 file in
.\GRASS\msys\home\"YOUR_USERNAME"; if not, look for them in
.\GRASS\msys\home (and subfolders) and move them to
.\GRASS\msys\home\"YOUR_USERNAME".

Regards,

Marco