locations

[Melissa Records]

> Any files or directories made under the GRASS HOME-directory
> automatically become "locations", polluting the Location-list that
> the user can call from the GRASS starting-screen. So various filter and
> rules files, shell scripts and p.map output all become locations. There
> should be a neat way to avoid this ...
> 
> Martijn van Leusen



Martijn,

The general rule of thumb around here is to put all of your 
scripts and rules files under your mapset directory, rather 
than under the location directory.  The very first thing that 
I do when I start GRASS is to "cd" to my mapset directory.


Melissa