[GRASS5] [bug #3397] (grass) installation problem for Windows XP

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Subject: installation problem for Windows XP

Platform: WindowsNT/2000/XP
grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 6.0.0

Name: Toby Ahrens

Problem: After I went through the downloading procedure for MS Windows/Cygwin (following exact directions on http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html), I can't open Grass. On the download directions page (http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html), I get through every step without problems or warning messages until step 7. At step 7, I clicked on the hot link under grass60.bat on the webpage, and I downloaded and saved it in c:\cygwin. Then when I try to run it, a window quickly pops up for a split second and then closes again, and then nothing happens (my computer is still working fine, but the GRASS 6.0.0 never opens). Do you have any suggestions of what I am doing wrong?

Thank you,

Toby Ahrens (email: tahrens@stanford.edu)

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Subject: installation problem for Windows XP

Platform: WindowsNT/2000/XP
grass obtained from: Mirror of Trento site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 6.0.0

Name: Toby Ahrens

Problem: After I went through the downloading procedure for MS
Windows/Cygwin (following exact directions on
http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html), I can't open Grass. On the download
directions page (http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html), I get through every
step without problems or warning messages until step 7. At step 7, I
clicked on the hot link under grass60.bat on the webpage, and I
downloaded and saved it in c:\cygwin. Then when I try to run it, a
window quickly pops up for a split second and then closes again, and
then nothing happens (my computer is still working fine, but the GRASS
6.0.0 never opens). Do you have any suggestions of what I am doing
wrong?

try running the batch file from a cmd window prompt instead of double
clicking it. That way when it exits with an error you get to see what
the error message says as the window won't dissapear.

Hamish