<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I would second this Nikos - perhaps such instructions could also be emailed as a welcome note when a new user joins the discussion group? As a noob it is sometimes difficult to know what information to include in requests for help (and also how to get this info out of GRASS)<br>cheers!<br>Rebecca<br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexandris@felis.uni-freiburg.de><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> grass-user@lists.osgeo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> bharath s <bharath.settur@gmail.com><br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, 19 August, 2010 13:22:57<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRASS-user] unable to calculate landscape metrices<br></font><br>[...]<br><br>Markus:<br><br>> Some questions:<br>> - which GRASS version<br>> - which Operating system<br>> - large file support enabled<br>> ?<br><br>@bharath:<br><br>Get most of the above questions answered via "g.version -br". Maybe the <br>"g.version" module could be enhanced to _also_ return the operating system?<br><br>As a side-note: <br><br>new user's ask naturally for support and very frequently the same questions <br>(like above) are asked from experienced user's to better nail down a potential <br>problem. Maybe we could use a wiki-page with standard steps like:<br><br> 1. provide information about grass version, build, etc (use "g.version -br" <br>for example)<br> 2. for raster related processing, provide the region
size ("g.region -p")<br> 3. etc.<br><br>Regards, Nikos<br>_______________________________________________<br>grass-user mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org" href="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user</a><br></div></div>
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