[GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: whinging about GRASS again]

[Joel Peter William Pitt]

Mark P. Line wrote:

>>Here's one way the learning curve could be flattened:
>>
>>First, don't ask for a location.  Use $HOME/.grass.
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>>
>
>What do you call it on Windows and Mac systems?
>How do you share locations among several users?
>  
>

There are reasonably standard locations that
are equivalent to a *nix user directory.

E.g. My Documents in windows.

It may pay to investigate the
CrystalSpace virtual file system which tries
to deal with the variation between systems,
including equivalent home directories and
configuration paths.

Joel