[GRASS-dev] grass in windows

[Veronica Andreo]

Hi devs :)

I'm a grass-in-Linux user but have to teach a grass course to windows users
in two weeks... so, i used my mum's pc (64 bits, with windows 7) to test
the stuff

I was recomended to install 32 bits version from osgeo4w (
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/). So, I downloaded, run as administrator,
selected only grass stable (grass702-rc1) and qgis stable (2.12). I left
the rest as it was by default, accepted all the dependencies and let the
thing download and install. Then, reboot because it asked for it. Starting
grass from desktop icon works fine, all fine, except that the windows shell
is so limited... no going back to previous command, no tab completion, no
selecting, nor copy-paste... :(

Then, I tested calling grass from MSYS shell, with the intention of getting
some of linux shell funcionalities, but the command grass70 does not
work... Attached, is a screenshot of the error i get...

So, i cannot start the program there... is there any tricks for that? Or
simply not possible? Maybe I'm missing something when selecting packages at
the installation...

Any hints, tips, tricks from grass-windows devs and users are highly
appreciated and more than welcome :)

Cheers! :)
Vero
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