[GRASS-user] output parameter not set error

[Paul Kelly]

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Maciej Sieczka wrote:

> Seb wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I upgraded grass from cvs last night and am getting the following error:
>>
>>
>> ---<---------------cut here---------------start-------------->---
>> GRASS 6.3.cvs (locs):~ > d.m&
>> [1] 20730
>> GRASS 6.3.cvs (locs):~ > Error in startup script:
>> ERROR: Required parameter <output> not set:
>>     (PostScript output file).
>> ---<---------------cut here---------------end---------------->---
>
> That's because 'ps.map -p', which d.m calls from
> $GISBASE/etc/dm/print.tcl, doesn't work anymore. CCing grass-dev.

This is because of a change made to fix this issue:
http://www.intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3418&display=History
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass-commit/2007-February/026632.html

I have only skimmed over this briefly but IMHO the original bug report is 
wrong and it should be a "won't fix" -  it would seem that specifying an 
output file is indeed optional if all that the user wants to do is list 
the available paper sizes.

Paul