[GRASS-user] Grass 6.3 on OS X

[Hamish]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In using the William Kyngesburye build on Mac OS X, I have a persistent 
> problem with vector files. Even where I have built the vector inside 
> Grass (for eg, by importing a shapefile such as the outline of 
> Australia), there is a coor file problem. Step by step:
> 
> 1) Start Grass
> 2) Import shapefile
> 3) Select new vector file
> 4) Display - OK.
> 
> 5) Exit Grass
> 6) Restart Grass
> 
> 7) Select vector file
> 8) Display
> 
> At (8), Grass says the Coor files is larger than it should be, and asks 
> me to rebuild the topology. It will not display the file. V.build 
> doesn't fix the problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?


at step 5, what is your exact method of exiting GRASS?
File->Quit and then "exit" in the terminal window?

were is your GRASS data stored? /Users/you/grassdata/ ?


try without the GUI? from the command prompt:

v.in.ogr out=<map>
v.info <map>
g.region vect=<map>
d.mon x0
d.vect <map>


Hamish