[GRASS5] Re: GRASS on Cygwin

[John Huddleston]

Markus, Andreas, and Malcolm,

I had a hard disk crash.  My power management system turned
off my disk during a download, caused a disk failure, plus the 
pagefile.sys was on another drive and it was wiped out.  So,
I have reloaded software, figured out the pagefile.sys problem,
lost all my email; however, recovered everything else.  I do 
development on a 20GB drive E:, backups to a F: drive, and
home CVS to the C: drive.   I lost the C: drive so I do not have
past revisions of my PhD work other than the incremental 
backups to the F: drive.  Takes time to recover.

Markus, let me know when you tag everything.  From now on
I will check out the Tagged code and build it rather than checkout
the HEAD of the cvs.

I looked at the startxwin.bat file.  It is well documented and 
users will be able to figure out how to use it.  I simply have
an icon to /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm and no BAT file is spawned,
only the xterm window.

Concerning the NVIS build, I could figure it out for us if you
want me to do it.   I was close and only had a handful of
unresolved links.  My next approach would be to start with none
rather than what is there, and build until all are resolved.  
Let me know.

Instead of spawning the xterm from the BAT in ME, just 
start X-Win32 and then start an xterm with bash and then 
start grass.  It takes less "environment" space.

Yes, I will make a bindist next time as well as a ZIP.  I will
add the programs that you have identified.  Are these them- 
ash, bash, bzip2, clear, cygwin, file, fileutils, findutils, gawk, grep, 
less, login, man, ncurses, regex, sed, shellutils, tar, termcap, 
textutils, zlib?

Did I miss anything else?

John Huddleston

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Lange" <Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de>
To: "Markus Neteler" <neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Cc: "Malcolm Blue" <mblue at nb.sympatico.ca>; <jhudd at lamar.colostate.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: GRASS on Cygwin


> Hi Markus, hi all,
> 
> i think that automatic installation of the startgrass.bat is not a good
> idea, as the script requires some editing. 
> I can not nkow the paths of the StarNet XWin and cygwin in advance. 
> 
> Surprisingly the binary grass installation works with the Microimages X
> Server. I have such an installation form the Microimages TNTmips GIS
> around. 
> The MI/X Server was distributed on several SuSE CDROMs here in germany.
> 
> Thanks for the tips with the startgrass.bat file. 
> With the Starnet Demo GRASS works fine on Windows. Perhaps i'll give
> tcltkgrass another try now.
> 
> cu,
> 
> Andreas
> 
> Markus Neteler schrieb:
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:16:32PM +0200, Andreas Lange wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i have written a new startgrass.bat file for the StarNet XWin32.
> > >
> > > Do you know of a way to suppress the cmd window for the xterm?
> > > The /I option does not work, i fear it is not possible, because
> > > xterm.exe is not linked with GUI32, so it is a console application.
> > >
> > > Where should i put this file on the cvs server?
> > > Under documents?
> > >
> > > cu,
> > >
> > Thanks, Andreas
> > 
> > I have added it for you in
> > cygwin/startgrass.bat
> > 
> > as it is no document. Somehow the install script should pick it
> > for installation from here.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> >  Markus
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Lange, 65187 Wiesbaden, Germany, Tel. +49 611 807850
> Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de - A.C.Lange at GMX.net


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