[GRASS-user] GRASS 6.3 Installation Woes on OS X

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 3:36 AM, Hamish wrote:

> William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>
>> .grass6rc is not something that must exist for GRASS to run.  Create
>> it if you need it.  I prefer to use .bash_profile instead,
>> since .grass6rc is loaded *after* the initial mapset selection.
>
>
> little clarification:
>
> .grassrc6 holds the GIS variables. It is not a series of shell  
> commands.
> It contains things like "DEBUG: 0".
>
> .grass.bashrc (or .grass.cshrc) contains shell commands to be run at
> initial mapset selection (creation of session shell). It contains  
> things
> like "export GRASS_WIDTH=800".
>
>
> Maybe .grass6rc exists on your builds for the Mac, I'm not sure,  
> but did
> you mean to say .grass.bashrc not .grass6rc?
>
Right, .grass.bashrc is what I meant.  Don't know if that's what Ryan  
meant.  It's not in the Mac build.


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