[GRASSLIST:2167] Re: i.ortho.photo in xwin

[Richard Greenwood]

Glynn Clements wrote:

>Richard Greenwood wrote:
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>>>I'm unfortunately living with trying to use Grass out of the xwin part
>>>of cygwin. I've been trying to use i.ortho.photo, and seem to
>>>successfully get through all of the steps, but when I try and
>>>orthorectify (step 8) I get a message "you will get mail when
>>>photo.rectify is complete". After that the computer processes for a
>>>few minutes, then nothing happens. No new raster appears in the target
>>>location. Does anyone have any ideas about what is happening?
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't know what might be happening in your case, but I can say that 
>>i.ortho.photo works in Cygwin. And if you add
>>    GRASS_STDERR: 1
>>to .grassrc5 you will disable the send mail and the message should got 
>>to sdtout (your shell window) instead.
>>    
>>
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>Actually, I don't think that's true of photo.rectify.
>
>There is a facility for mailing errors to the user built into the
>libgis error functions (G_warning/G_fatal_error), and that can be
>disabled by setting GRASS_STDERR.
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>However, photo.rectify has its own version of this functionality, and
>there doesn't appear to be an override. Unless you have a working
>"mail" program (which implies a working local mail system), you can't
>see the messages.
>
>OTOH, I suppose that you could create a dummy "mail" script which just
>appends its input to a log file.
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I have not used my [GRASS_STDERR: 1] suggestion with i.ortho.photo, I 
was just regurgitating an answer I had seen on the list recently and 
thought it was applicable here. I have no doubt that Glynn's comments 
are a better path.

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Richard Greenwood
www.greenwoodmap.com