[GRASS-dev] GRASS Book v.3 and making a new location

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Friday 27 June 2008, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Hi Devs,
>
> A colleague of mine just noticed that the process for creating a new
> location from georeferenced file (GRASS startup GUI) does not match the
> text in the 3rd edition of the GRASS Book.
>
> Also, when trying to make a new location in this manner the following error
> is given:
>
>
> can't set "fileOpt::dtnum": parent namespace doesn't exist
> can't set "fileOpt::dtnum": parent namespace doesn't exist
>     while executing
> "set fileOpt::dtnum 0"
>     (procedure "fileOpt::sel_dtrans" line 7)
>     invoked from within
> "fileOpt::sel_dtrans $dtrans"
>     (procedure "fileOpt::create_loc" line 26)
>     invoked from within
> "fileOpt::create_loc"
>     (procedure "fileOpt::def_loc" line 26)
>     invoked from within
> "fileOpt::def_loc"
>     ("uplevel" body line 1)
>     invoked from within
> "uplevel \#0 $cmd"
>     (procedure "Button::_release" line 18)
>     invoked from within
> "Button::_release .fileloc.row3.submit"
>     (command bound to event)
>
>
> Note that this was done with no .grassrc6 file. It seems like the startup
> GUI is having problems identifying the GISDBASE path.
>
> Any ideas on what may be causing this? I am using GRASS64-svn
>
> thanks,
>
> Dylan

Forgot to mention, the relevent pages in the GRASS Book: pg. 37.

Dylan

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Dylan Beaudette
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