[GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type maps

On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:33 PM, grass-user-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:

From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type
  maps
To: Eric & Elga <eegaba@terra.com.br>
Cc: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0803111946120.5518@vortex.ukshells.co.uk>
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eric & Elga wrote:

Thanks a lot Paul. I'll try this installing MinGW or Msys, as I thought it
wasn't necessary with the native win version.
I'll keep you posted.

GRASS is quite usable on Windows without MinGW/Msys: they aren't a
requirement for running the bulk of GRASS modules which are written in C,
nor for the startup or GUI (gis.m) which are written in Tcl - but a few
modules are written in Bourne shell script and will not run without a
bourne shell interpreter, which is not available on Windows. Unfortunately
you've managed come across two such modules...

This is why to install msys. It has a bash interpreter and allows running of all scripts EXCEPT those that require an x-windows monitor. These include all d.* (unless they are run with special environmental variables set so that they render to a file instead of the none-existent xmon.)

Michael

FWIW the full list (more or less) of modules which are shell scripts is:
d.correlate
d.monsize
d.mvmon
d.out.gpsdrive
d.out.png
d.out.file
d.polar
d.rast.leg
d.redraw
d.resize
d.shadedmap
d.slide.show
d.split
d.vect.thematic
db.dropcol
db.in.ogr
db.out.ogr
db.test
g.manual
g.mlist
g.mremove
i.fusion.brovey
i.image.mosaic
i.in.spotvgt
i.landsat.rgb
i.oif
i.spectral
i.tasscap
m.proj
r.blend
r.fillnulls
r.in.aster
r.in.srtm
r.in.wms
r.li.setup
r.mapcalculator
r.mask
r.out.xyz
r.plane
r.reclass.area
r.regression.line
r.shaded.relief
r.tileset
r.univar.sh
r3.mapcalculator
v.build.all
v.centroids
v.convert.all
v.db.addcol
v.db.addtable
v.db.join
v.db.dropcol
v.db.droptable
v.db.renamecol
v.db.reconnect.all
v.db.univar
v.db.update
v.dissolve
v.in.garmin
v.in.e00
v.in.gns
v.in.gpsbabel
v.in.mapgen
v.in.sites.all
v.in.wfs
v.rast.stats
v.report
v.univar.sh
v.what.vect