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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>within the WinGRASS installer (6.3.0-4, to be released) I
created a new StartMenu item: GRASS Command Line</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>here's a screenshot of the new GRASS start menu: <A
href="http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/New-WinGRASS-StartMenu.png">http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/temp/New-WinGRASS-StartMenu.png</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>it's a link to the batch file grass63-cmd.bat,
that's simply as follows:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>@echo off</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>grass63 -text</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>the problem is: when I launch GRASS in text mode (with -text),
then the .grassrc6 file has "text" as default "launch mode"; that means that
launching the "classic" grass63.bat link will result in launching GRASS in text
mode again... and I fear that the standard windows user won't know how to
launch grass with the tcltk GUI, or if he knows, it will be disappointed to need
to hack the .grassrc6 file to let the GUI work again;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I figured the following "walk around": create a new simple
batch file: grass63-gui.bat:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>@echo off</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>grass63 -tcltk</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>and replace the grass63.bat link in the menu with a link
pointing to grass63-gui.bat.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Do you think that there are better
solutions?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Many thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Marco</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>