[GRASSLIST:3068] Re: [GRASS5] GRASS 5.3 real problem with s.in.ascii

[Richard Greenwood]

Hamish wrote:
>>A week back, I reported that I couldn't import any ascii file with 
>>string characters using s.in.ascii for GRASS 5.3 (it gave me a malloc 
>>error).
> 
> 
> A couple of days ago I updated s.in.ascii to catch some common input
> errors; it probably still won't load your data, but hopefully will tell
> you why and then exit cleanly.
> 
>  
> 
>>I just had a report from a student using GRASS 5.3 under Cygwin 
>>(Windows XP) that s.in.ascii doesn't work at all in this context. It 
>>gives a 'segmentation fault. core dump' error.

I just posted a 5.3 binary distribution for Cygwin based on today's CVS at:
    http://www.greenwoodmap.com/grass/grass5.3/
It is totally un-tested.

Regards,
-- 
Richard Greenwood
www.greenwoodmap.com