[GRASSLIST:6109] Trouble getting grass started

[Mike Flanigan]

Dear Grass users:

My last message ("Trouble in Portland") was a little vague.  Here's a
thorough transcription of my input and the resulting screen messages:

At an intial cygwin command prompt, I enter grass5, which is met with a
quick response of:

starting grass
clear: not found

and then I enter the text screen asking for location, mapset, and
database.  I think I entered good information in a previous launch
attempt, so I hit <ESC><ENTER> as directed and get to a "welcome to
grass" screen that prompts me to enter "tcltkgrass&," which I do.  I
then get the following stream of messages:

[1] 1532 (or some other number)

GRASS:~> Application initialization failed: no display name and no
$DISPLAY environment variable
Error in startup script: invalid command name "bind"
       while executing
"bind balloon <Enter> {
             set balloonHelp(%W,after) [after 400 {update BalloonHelp
%W}]
       }    "
       (procedure "BalloonInit" line 2)
       invoked from within
"BalloonInit"
       (file "usr/local/grass5/tcltkgrass/main/gui.tcl" line 1677
"source $env(TCLTKGRASSBASE)/main/gui.tcl"
      (file "usr/local/grass5/bin/tcltkgrass" line 17)

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated,



Mike Flanigan, P.E.
Parametrix, Inc.
700 NE Multnomah, Suite 1160
Portland, Oregon 97232
t: 503.233.2400
f: 503.233.4825
c: 503.267.5072
mflanigan at parametrix.com