[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6: GISRC on Windows

[Maris Nartiss]

I fixed startup of 6.4 on Windows in r49618.
Seems that grassrc6 file storage has been changed for 6.4 but not for the 6.5.

Maris.

2011/12/7 Maris Nartiss <maris.gis at gmail.com>:
> Seems that recent changes have broken something on Windows. This is
> what I get when I try to start GRASS (WinGRASS-6.4.SVN-r49571-1) on
> Vista (had to run from CMD to see anything and had to enable echo on
> init.bat file):
>
> C:\Users\tests>"C:\Program Files\GRASS 6.4.SVN\etc\echo" "GISDBASE: C:\Users\tes
> ts"   | g.dirseps -g  1>"C:\Users\tests\AppData\Roaming\GRASS6\grassrc6"
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> There is no "GRASS6" folder in C:\Users\tests\AppData\Roaming\.
> Maris.
>
> 2011/12/4 Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2011/12/3 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
>>>> currently GIRC file is stored on Windows in
>>>>
>>>> $HOME/.grassrc6
>>>
>>> hmmm, I thought that already had happened. I guess
>>> not.
>>>
>>>> This location seems to be probably quite weird
>>>> for normal Windows user. I would suggest to store
>>>> GISRC in `$APPDATA\GRASS6\rc`.
>>>
>>> It seems like a good & natural idea to move it into
>>> $APPDATA\GRASS6 on Windows -- but do keep the
>>> 'grassrc6' name.
>>
>> done in r49506, build for testing available at [1].
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> [1] http://wingrass.fsv.cvut.cz/grass65/WinGRASS-6.5.SVN-r49506-1-Setup.exe
>>
>> --
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