[GRASS-SVN] r59980 - grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/init
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Wed Apr 30 06:58:17 PDT 2014
Author: neteler
Date: 2014-04-30 06:58:17 -0700 (Wed, 30 Apr 2014)
New Revision: 59980
Modified:
grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/init/variables.html
Log:
manual variables.html: explain TMPDIR for wxGUI settings; HTML cosmetics
Modified: grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/init/variables.html
===================================================================
--- grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/init/variables.html 2014-04-30 13:57:38 UTC (rev 59979)
+++ grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/init/variables.html 2014-04-30 13:58:17 UTC (rev 59980)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>GRASS variables and environment variables</title>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
</ul>
-<h2>Setting GRASS variables</h2>
+<h2>Setting GRASS gisenv variables</h2>
Use <em><a href="g.gisenv.html">g.gisenv</a></em> within GRASS. This permanently
predefines GRASS variables in the <tt>.grassrc6</tt> file.
@@ -120,15 +120,16 @@
standard distribution.</dd>
<dt>GRASS_BATCH_JOB</dt>
- <dd>defines the name (path) of a shell script to be processed as batch job.</dd>
+ <dd>defines the name (path) of a shell script to be processed as
+ batch job.</dd>
<dt>GIS_ERROR_LOG</dt>
- <dd>If set, $GIS_ERROR_LOG should be the absolute path to the log file (a
- relative path will be interpreted relative to the process' cwd, not
- the cwd at the point the user set the variable). If not set,
- $HOME/GIS_ERROR_LOG is used instead. The file will only be used if
- it already exists.</dd>
-
+ <dd>If set, GIS_ERROR_LOG should be the absolute path to the log
+ file (a relative path will be interpreted relative to the process'
+ cwd, not the cwd at the point the user set the variable). If not
+ set, <tt>$HOME/GIS_ERROR_LOG</tt> is used instead. The file will
+ only be used if it already exists.</dd>
+
<dt>GRASS_ERROR_MAIL</dt>
<dd>set to any value to send user mail on an error or warning that
happens while stderr is being redirected.</dd>
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@
<dt>GRASS_FONT_CAP</dt>
<dd>[g.mkfontcap, d.font, display drivers]<br>
- specifies an alternative location (to $GISBASE/etc/fontcap) for
+ specifies an alternative location (to <tt>$GISBASE/etc/fontcap</tt>) for
the font configuration file.</dd>
<dt>GRASS_HEIGHT</dt>
@@ -160,7 +161,7 @@
<dt>GRASS_HTML_BROWSER</dt>
<dd>[init.sh, d.m, gis.m]<br>
defines name of HTML browser. For most platforms this should be
- an executable in your PATH, or the full path to an executable.<br><br>
+ an executable in your PATH, or the full path to an executable.<br>
Mac OS X runs applications differently from the CLI.
Therefore, GRASS_HTML_BROWSER should be the application's signature,
which is a domain-like name, just reversed, i.e. com.apple.Safari. To
@@ -223,7 +224,7 @@
<dt>GRASS_PAGER</dt>
<dd>[various modules]<br>
- maybe set to either <tt>less</tt>, <tt>more</tt>, or <tt>cat</tt>.</dd>
+ it may be set to either <tt>less</tt>, <tt>more</tt>, or <tt>cat</tt>.</dd>
<dt>GRASS_PERL</dt>
<dd>[used during install process for generating man pages]<br>
@@ -295,6 +296,15 @@
<dt>GRASS_NO_GLX_PIXMAPS</dt>
<dd>[nviz]<br>
Set to any value to disable the use of GLX Pixmaps.</dd>
+
+ <dt>TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP</dt>
+ <dd>[Various GRASS GIS commands and wxGUI]<br>
+ <!-- what about Windows %TEMP% and http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/560#comment:21 ? -->
+ The default wxGUI temporary directory is chosen from a
+ platform-dependent list, but the user can control the selection of
+ this directory by setting one of the TMPDIR, TEMP or TMP
+ environment variables Hence the wxGUI uses $TMPDIR if it is set,
+ then $TEMP, otherwise /tmp.</dd>
</dl>
<a name="png"></a>
@@ -469,7 +479,6 @@
GRASS_OVERWRITE environment variable or the OVERWRITE gisenv variable detailed
below will cause maps with identical names to be overwritten.</dd>
-
<dt>GRASS_VERBOSE</dt>
<dd>[all modules]<br>
toggles verbosity level
@@ -483,14 +492,12 @@
so that the <tt>--verbose</tt> or <tt>--quiet</tt> flags will be inherited
by dependent modules as the script runs.</dd>
-
<dt>GRASS_REGION</dt>
<dd>[libgis]<br>
override region settings, separate parameters with a ";". Format
is the same as in the WIND region settings file. Otherwise use is the same as
WIND_OVERRIDE.</dd>
-
<dt>WIND_OVERRIDE</dt>
<dd>[libgis]<br>
it causes programs to use the specified named region (created with
@@ -530,12 +537,10 @@
<dt>GISDBASE</dt>
<dd>initial database</dd>
-
<dt>GIS_LOCK</dt>
<dd>lock ID to prevent parallel GRASS use,
- process id of the start-up shell script</dd>
+ <br>process id of the start-up shell script</dd>
-
<dt>GRASS_DB_ENCODING</dt>
<dd>[d.what.vect/forms library]<br>
encoding of query form (utf-8, ascii, iso8859-1, koi8-r)</dd>
@@ -552,19 +557,15 @@
startup, it will determine the GUI used. If it is not defined
startup will default to the last GUI used.</dd>
-
<dt>LOCATION</dt>
<dd>full path to location directory</dd>
-
<dt>LOCATION_NAME</dt>
<dd>initial location name</dd>
-
<dt>MAPSET</dt>
<dd>initial mapset</dd>
-
<dt>OVERWRITE</dt>
<dd>[all modules]<br>
toggles map overwrite.
@@ -585,7 +586,7 @@
<dl>
<dt>$HOME/.grassrc6</dt>
- <dd>stores the GRASS variables (but not environment variables)</dd>
+ <dd>stores the GRASS gisenv variables (but not environment variables)</dd>
<dt>$HOME/.grasslogin6</dt>
@@ -601,7 +602,7 @@
</dl>
-<h3>SEE ALSO</h3>
+<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<em>
<a href="displaydrivers.html">Display drivers</a>
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