help required from grass users

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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Mohammad J Abedini wrote:

      Dear grass users

Recently, I downloaded grass4.15 from U. S. Army home page and followed
the suggestion made by "Yung-Tsung Kang" to install GRASS on my personal
computer. FYI, I have the latest version of slackware linux OS on my system.
I am having trouble to make the software operational. In order to give an

drwxr-xr-x 3 grass users 1024 Jan 9 17:40 scripts/
drwxrwxrwx 3 101 31 1024 Feb 27 23:16 spearfish/
drwxr-xr-x 7 grass users 1024 Jan 9 17:39 txt/

In my setup, spearfish/ is in a directory data/, which I use as my
"DATABASE".

LOCATION: PERMANENT_____(enter list for a list of locations)

MAPSET: root__________(or mapsets within a location)

DATABASE: /home/grass/spearfish_____________________________

I believe your problem lies in your directory specifications. Try the
following:

        DATABASE: /home/grass
        LOCATION: spearfish
        MAPSET: PERMANENT

Regards,

Eric