[GRASS-user] r.external across Windows and Linux

[Glynn Clements]

Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:

> We are now about to move our GRASS DB to a network storage so it can
> be accessed from both sides. When I created a test-DB on the network
> storage I had trouble using external data (r.external.out). The
> links to the data seem to be different between Linux and Windows...
> 
> My question is: Is it in general possible to use external data
> linked to a GRASS DB which is accessed both from Windows and Linux
> boxes? Or is accessing one GRASS DB (or one mapset) both from
> Windows and Linux a problem in general?

It should work, but I don't know how much testing r.external.out has
received, particlarly on Windows.

If you can report specific details of any issues you've encountered,
they will be looked into.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>