[GRASS-windows] No such file or directory

[Peter Brooks]

Hi Markus, 

 - yes it works using the GUI (should have thought to try this)

 - yes, the path contains whitespaces. Using speech or quote marks 
around the full path + filename sorts it.  Falls over without. A path 
without whitespace works but requires unix style forward slashes.


(I stupidly thought that by creating a mapset and saving the data 
into that folder GRASS would be able to find it... didn't think I 
would need the full path. Will now move the data to a c:\ncexternal 
folder to reduce typing :-)

Many thanks
Peter


On 14 Aug 2009 at 13:44, Markus Neteler wrote:

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Peter Brooks<peter at timedworld.com>
wrote: > Hi, I've downloaded the 'ncexternal' data from the grassbook
website - >  I created a 'ncexternal' mapset folder and copied the
files into > there. > > Whenever I try the examples that access 
import
or process these files > I get an error message in GRASS. For example
on p62 > > r.in.poly in=newfacility.txt out=new_facility_1m > > gives
> > newfacility.txt: No such file or directory > > although the file
is there. I have tried adding the folder to the > Windows path, but
that doesn't solve it.

Peter - two ideas:

- does it work when you use the GUI (i.e., launch r.in.poly without
  parameters)?
- does the path to newfacility.txt contain white space? We are still
   hunting down those cases where it fails

best
Markus