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<DIV><BR>> Many thanks for the quick reply - and for your excellent tutorial, which I am finding most helpful.<BR>> Your suggested remedy, that of using gis.m, is unfortunately not working for me.<BR>> There is no error message, just nothing at all.<BR>> Perhaps I should have mentioned that, when I first start Grass, I get two error messages.<BR>> They are</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> sh: clear: command not found<BR>> /usr/local/grass-6.2.3/etc/Init.sh: line 635: tput: command not found</DIV>
<DIV><BR>> I have had a look in Init.sh and the bad line reads 'tput clear'.<BR>> Without asking you to spend a lot of time on the matter, could you briefly suggest something else that I might try?<BR>> Is there something that I have failed to download?</DIV>
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<DIV>ncurses ?</DIV>
<DIV>Any special reason why you want to use the cygwin version ? The native windows versions have become pretty good by now.<BR><BR>At Moritz's suggestion I have downloaded ncurses - indeed, the full Utils package - from Cygwin.<BR>And the two error messages, of which I was complaining, have disappeared.</DIV>
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<DIV>MORITZ IS A GENIUS</DIV>
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<DIV>But, gis.m still does not work.<BR>It looks as though the default Cygwin download, which is not a full download, is not enough.<BR>I was hoping to use Cygwin because most of the online tutorials assume a Unix environment.<BR>Some of the tutorials are themselves tar.gz files.<BR>And Marcus's book is quite expensive.<BR>I don't want to buy the book unless the Cygwin/Grass combination works.<BR>So I have started using the native Windows version of Grass, at first with the Spearfish60 data.<BR>And I have made some progress.<BR>But 'd.vect roads' does not change what I see on the screen.<BR>It creates a file called 'map.png'.<BR>Sorry to keep asking for help, but how do I display the 'roads' map in a window?</DIV></td></tr></table><br>