grass4.1 -f

[Darrell McCauley]

Recall a while back I said something about adding a -f
flag so that you don't have to go through the initial
startup screen in grass (verifying location & mapset)?

Here's what's necessary:

 1. edit your grass4.1 script and modify the last line from
      exec $GISBASE/etc/GIS.sh
    to
      exec $GISBASE/etc/GIS.sh $*

 2. edit $GISBASE/etc/GIS.sh and add the three lines with
    the '-' prepended (don't actually prepend the '-')

     - if [ $?1 -ne "-f" ]
     - then
       $ETC/gis_set
       case $? in
        0) ;;
        *) exit ;;
       esac
     - fi

That way, grass will automagically fire up with the last-used
location and mapset. If someone likes this, make sure that you
send this to grassbug at zorro or contact someone so that it has
a chance to make it into grass4.2

--Darrell