[GRASSLIST:1114] Newbie GRASS questions

[Bill Dickinson Jr]

Hey there, gang:

Well, now that I have GRASS running on my OS X box and I am running 
through the SEEDS tutorial, I am going to start plaguing this mailing 
list with my pithy comments and observations on GRASS. ;-) Feel free 
to ignore them or berate me if they are too much. I'll try not to 
bombard the list with useless fluff. ;-)

The first thing I have run into is the way certain functions work 
through the text or the graphical interface. When I run g.list from 
the text interface I get the appropriate list of items within the 
Location, but then I can't get out of the list when it is done. I get 
an (END) at the bottom of the screen, but hitting Enter does not 
return me to my GRASS prompt. I have to go to another terminal window 
and kill the g.list process. On the other hand, the g.list function 
through the GUI works fine and doesn't hang. Has anyone else run into 
this problem?

In a similar vein, when I use "d.mon select=x0" through the GUI the 
WISH interface hangs, though the same function works fine through the 
text interface.

Someone mentioned that the GUI was pretty rough, but so far it seems 
fine to me. At least that is to say that it is about what I expected 
from an open-source project without the deep pockets of an ESRI to 
give it a slick finish.

I believe I read somewhere that you do need a database working with 
GRASS for Vector support, which seems pretty important coming form 
the primarily vector world of ArcView. At some point, I am going to 
have to solve the database problems I have had with GRASS on OS X, so 
if anyone is already has this setup working on OS X I would love to 
talk about it offline.

Bill
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Bill Dickinson
GIS Specialist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Environmental & Safety Branch, Code 250
wdickins at pop700.gsfc.nasa.gov