[GRASSLIST:10608] Re: problems with GIS managerRe: GRASS 6.1cvs gis.m error

[Glynn Clements]

Michael Barton wrote:

> In a strange, unrelated problem (but then again, maybe not), that has
> affected a student in my lab who updated to the newest Cygwin binary.
> Whenever he starts GRASS, it opens a saved workspace file even though he
> doesn¹t explicitly instruct it to do so.

Two things spring to mind initially:

1. Cygwin's Tcl/Tk package is weird. It is neither Unix nor Windows
Tcl/Tk, but a hybrid of the two. If he's using Cygwin's Tcl/Tk for
gis.m, there's no telling what will happen.

2. Scripting languages (e.g. Bourne shell and Tcl) make it easy to
write code which doesn't work when pathnames contain spaces, which is
a lot more common on Windows than on Unix.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>