[GRASSLIST:5352] Re: Long database names?

[Hamish]

> >> This seems like a silly problem, but when I am going to set up a
> >> new location, my database name appears to be restricted in terms of
> >> a max number of characters.  Is there anyway to get around this
> >> short of making the database at a higher level in short directory
> >> names?
>
>     I think making the name length arbitrarily long (or at least very,
>     very
> long) would be the best approach -- I'm thinking of users of macs and
> pcs, mind you, where minimally they have to include:
>     /Users/username/Documents (mac)
>     /Documents and Settings/Username/My Documents (pcs)


note that you can start GRASS with longer names via alternate ways:

when you start grass, e.g.:
$ grass57 /path/to/database/location/mapset


with g.mapset:
G> g.mapset mapset=new_long_mapset_name


with g.gisenv:
G> g.gisenv set="MAPSET=new_long_mapset_name"


the length is still finite, but longer than on the text startup screen.



Hamish