<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hellik@web.de" target="_blank">hellik@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="">>The guide is there but I don't want to see the user struggling with<br>
unpacking tar.bz2 on MS Window. zip or 7z would be helpful.<br>
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</div>7zip can unzip and untar tar.bz2. so if you have installed 7zip, you can do<br>
this.<br>
<div class=""><br></div></blockquote><div>Excellent. I was not aware of that. Added to the wiki.<br></div><div> </div><div><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_errors#The_GRASS_GIS_.28winGRASS.29_exits_immediately_after_I_start_it.21">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_errors#The_GRASS_GIS_.28winGRASS.29_exits_immediately_after_I_start_it.21</a><br>

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>The package is >12 MB, so size is the issue?<br>
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</div>I would say manpower; there are 1-2 persons maintaining OSGeo4W base<br>
packages.<br>
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<br></div></blockquote><div>I can understand that. Since 7-Zip (which is open source) can handle it, I don't see any problem with tar.bz2 (especially when it is now noted in the guide).<br><br><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_errors#The_GRASS_GIS_.28winGRASS.29_exits_immediately_after_I_start_it.21">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_errors#The_GRASS_GIS_.28winGRASS.29_exits_immediately_after_I_start_it.21</a><br>

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best regards<br>
Helmut<br>
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