help required from grass users

[Eric Buddington]

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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Mohammad J Abedini wrote:

>       Dear grass users
>
> Recently, I downloaded grass4.15 from U. S. Army home page and followed
> the suggestion made by "Yung-Tsung Kang" to install GRASS on my personal
> computer. FYI, I have the latest version of slackware linux OS on my system.
> I am having trouble to make the software operational. In order to give an
 
> drwxr-xr-x   3 grass    users        1024 Jan  9 17:40 scripts/
> drwxrwxrwx   3 101      31           1024 Feb 27 23:16 spearfish/
> drwxr-xr-x   7 grass    users        1024 Jan  9 17:39 txt/

In my setup, spearfish/ is in a directory data/, which I use as my
"DATABASE".

> LOCATION:   PERMANENT_____(enter list for a list of locations)
>
> MAPSET:     root__________(or mapsets within a location)
>
>
> DATABASE:   /home/grass/spearfish_____________________________

I believe your problem lies in your directory specifications. Try the
following:

        DATABASE: /home/grass
        LOCATION: spearfish
        MAPSET:   PERMANENT

Regards,

Eric