[winGRASS] Installation Problems

[Glynn Clements]

Kirk Schmidt wrote:

> I have been diligently working through the installation of  grass5 for 
> cygwin on a windows system (actually windows 98)  I ran into a couple of 
> minor snags with the install shell but that seems to have been overcome 
> (a problem with the filesize checker). I have installed cygwin and it is 
> operating as well.  I also installed the evaluation version of Star Net 
> Xwin-32 and it appears to work OK.
> 
> When I activate cygwin and type in "grass5 help"  I get the help 
> standard help files which originate from the file  file 
> cygwin/usr/local/bin/grass5.sh
> This indicates that all is well.
> 
> When I enter  "grass5 -tcltk"  i get the following message:
> 
> usage: /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock file pid
> unable to properly access /home/Kirk Schmidt/.gislock5
> 
> Upon checking the path to /home/Kirk Schmidt/   I  only find a BASH 
> history file
> 
> Does anybody have any idea what the problem is?

The problem is that GRASS can't handle spaces in file names. You will
need to convince Cygwin to use a different value for your username and
home directory.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>