[GRASSLIST:3718] Re: Linux vs. Windows 2000 port

[Kevin Slover]

Erin,
    I have yet to try to use the WIN GRASS, as I am perfectly happy with the
Linux box I am using it on.  There is of course, as Buchan mentioned, cygwin,
which is of course RH's unix port for windows.  I tried installing it one time
on WIN98, and had a bear of a time.  And at this point, I am still reluctant
to put it back on...  The other problem that is a possibility would be the
"flakiness" of WIN.  I have heard that even WIN2000 is still not a great OS,
and does have some major issues.

Cygwin does, however, have the bash and also gawk support.  So, if that is the
route that you want to  go, you would not have to switch over to PERL.


Erin ODoherty/RMRS/USDAFS wrote:

> I am about to (finally) get rid of my old HP workstation because it is too
> old and slow to make it worth upgrading to GRASS5.  I am debating whether I
> should keep an older Pentium to run Linux for GRASS5 or if I should try to
> run GRASS5 on my jazzy new Windows2000 PC.    From reading the website
> information I am thinking that installing GRASS in the Windows environment
> is probably more trouble than it is worth.  (Also, I would greatly miss the
> functionality of Unix, since I have written a lot of shell scripts for
> GRASS and I am so accustomed to doing editing with vi and awk, etc. )  So,
> could someone with experience with GRASS in Windows advise me?  Is it
> really no big deal?  Would I have to switch all my scripts to perl?
> Thank you,
>
> Erin O'Doherty

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