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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>thanks to all for the exhaustive replies.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>>Are you sure? AFAICT, etc/lock should always succeed on Windows, i.e.<BR>>it won't stop you from having two sessions with the same current<BR>>mapset. You will get a warning, but the mapset should still be<BR>>changed.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>sorry but not. I tried to find out why here <A href="http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/general/g.mapset/main.c">http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/general/g.mapset/main.c</A> but I still don't know many things in GRASS code to understand it well (and my C is very very rusty). I just found that at lines 155-156 a conditional calls G_fatal_error if the GIS_LOCK env var is not set (var retrieved at line 154).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>>If g.mapset doesn't work, you can always change the GISDBASE,<BR>>LOCATION_NAME and MAPSET variables directly with g.gisenv.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Yes, it doesn't produce errors, but it doesn't change the location/mapset!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Marco</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>