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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A real newbie here.... trying to get started for the first time on Grass so I can play with shape files.. am trying to install Grass 5.7 using "Installing Grass 5.7 on Win32 with Cygwin" instructions (dated 2004/03/29) onto Windows XP.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I did the "Cygwin installation" including selected packages via Cygwin mirror site and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>downloaded xtclk-8.3.4-CYGWIN.tar.gz</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Tried to enter the following into the cygwin shell window as per instructions but nothing happens except the following error message....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>bash-2.05b$ tar xvfz xtcltk-8.3.4-CYGWIN.tar.gz<BR>bash: tar: command not found</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Something simple is wrong but cant figure it out. Have checked that I have tar.exe in /bin folder Ok.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any clues as to what I have missed? or is it a grass5.7 thing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Phil</FONT></DIV></DIV><p>
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