[GRASS-dev] GRASS init.sh

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Mon Jun 12 07:34:39 EDT 2006


Hamish wrote:

> > 3. user environment variables are stored in two places $HOME/.grassrc6
> > and $HOME/.grass.$SHELL
> 
> note the difference between shell variables and GIS variables.

... as well as the difference between shell variables and environment
variables (the difference being the "export" command).

> Each of
> these files handles one set. 
> 
> (e.g. MAPSET is not a shell variable [any more])

It's a shell variable within Init.sh; it isn't an environment variable
any more.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>




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