[GRASSLIST:10610] Re: problems with GIS managerRe: GRASS 6.1cvs gis.m error

[Michael Barton]

In this case, he's using the version of TclTk that is supplied with Huidae
Cho's binaries. The Cygwin TclTk doesn't work with GRASS.

Haven't checked yet to see if there is some 'rogue code' in the d.m script,
but that will be next.

Michael
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> From: Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:42:52 +0000
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
> Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:10586] Re: problems with GIS managerRe: GRASS 6.1cvs
> gis.m error
> 
> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> In a strange, unrelated problem (but then again, maybe not), that has
>> affected a student in my lab who updated to the newest Cygwin binary.
>> Whenever he starts GRASS, it opens a saved workspace file even though he
>> doesn¹t explicitly instruct it to do so.
> 
> Two things spring to mind initially:
> 
> 1. Cygwin's Tcl/Tk package is weird. It is neither Unix nor Windows
> Tcl/Tk, but a hybrid of the two. If he's using Cygwin's Tcl/Tk for
> gis.m, there's no telling what will happen.
> 
> 2. Scripting languages (e.g. Bourne shell and Tcl) make it easy to
> write code which doesn't work when pathnames contain spaces, which is
> a lot more common on Windows than on Unix.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>