[GRASSLIST:2420] Re: more startup woes

[jeshua]

On Monday, September 10, 2001, at 08:19 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> Note: beta11 is quite out of date now.

Markus - what is the FTP address to upload the Pre binaries to?

>> There, the terminal tells me I've got several options:
>>
>> This version running thru the TC Shell (/bin/tcsh)
>> Help is available with the command:      g.help
>> See the licence terms with:              g.version -c
>> Start the graphical user interface with: tcltkgrass&
>> When ready to quit enter:                exit
>>
>> Funny thing, if I do g.help, I'm back with the 'vt100 error'.
>
> g.help is a curses-based program. Error messages of the form "Error
> opening terminal: xxxx" are generated by the curses library when it
> can't find a terminal description.
>
> This problem seems to be common on MacOS X.

It was either fixed with OS X 10.0.4 or Grass Pre 1 or the combination 
of both....


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