[GRASSLIST:2720] Fwd: list GRASSLIST: List Message Rejected

[Gordon Keith]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 07:08, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 16:38:58 +0000, Glynn Clements
> <glynn.clements at virgin.net> wrote: [snip]
>
> > > 2) is there a way so that a single user  can open two session of
> > > grass and read data in two different locations?
> >
> > GRASS contains code to prevent a user from having multiple
> > concurrent sessions. This could be disabled, but I'm not sure what
> > the consequences would be; presumably this mechanism is there for a
> > reason (although it might only be necessary to prevent concurrent
> > access to a given mapset).
>
> I think the single session per user limitation is due to the way
> grass manages the session variables via ~/.grassrc5.

Any chance of getting that fixed?

Having to quit out of a grass session to look at some data in another
location is a real pain.

Or is there an easy way to switch locations on the fly?

Regards
Gordon