[GRASS-dev] Re: mapsets and locations with spaces on wingrass?

[andrea antonello]

Hi Markus,
thanks for the reply.

[...]
> I am afraid no. But myself, I used it for weeks with a white space in the
> path name, it worked (say, we fixed a couple of things in those days).
> So, in the path to the GRASS database including that is might be ok,
> but apparently not yet in a location name.

Pretty sure that is the point. Having a space both in the mapset and
in the location leads to failure for me.
GRASS doesn't even open (both console and gui mode) in that case.

Ciao
Andrea



>
> Markus
>
>> Launching commands from the JGrass prepared environment I get an error
>> telling that the filename is illegal because of the < > character,
>> which I assume being the space. So the maps are not found and the
>> command is not launched.
>>
>> Any idea on this?
>> Andrea
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM, andrea antonello
>> <andrea.antonello at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi developers,
>>> I browsed the native grass package Known Issues, but couldn't find an answer.
>>>
>>> Does grass on windows have problems with spaces in the mapset or location path?
>>>
>>> I tried to launch the console mode and it seems to accept the "test
>>> location" and "test mapset" entries.
>>> When I then do ESC-ENTER, it proposes me to create the mapset "test",
>>> which means it doesn't take the full path.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrea
>>>
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