[GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type maps

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 11, 2008, at 4:33 PM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> From: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type
> 	maps
> To: Eric & Elga <eegaba at terra.com.br>
> Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0803111946120.5518 at vortex.ukshells.co.uk>
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> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eric & Elga wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot Paul. I'll try this installing MinGW or Msys, as I  
>> thought it
>> wasn't necessary with the native win version.
>> I'll keep you posted.
>
> GRASS is quite usable on Windows without MinGW/Msys: they aren't a
> requirement for running the bulk of GRASS modules which are written  
> in C,
> nor for the startup or GUI (gis.m) which are written in Tcl - but a  
> few
> modules are written in Bourne shell script and will not run without a
> bourne shell interpreter, which is not available on Windows.  
> Unfortunately
> you've managed come across two such modules...

This is why to install msys. It has a bash interpreter and allows  
running of all scripts EXCEPT those that require an x-windows  
monitor. These include all d.* (unless they are run with special  
environmental variables set so that they render to a file instead of  
the none-existent xmon.)

Michael



> FWIW the full list (more or less) of modules which are shell  
> scripts is:
> d.correlate
> d.monsize
> d.mvmon
> d.out.gpsdrive
> d.out.png
> d.out.file
> d.polar
> d.rast.leg
> d.redraw
> d.resize
> d.shadedmap
> d.slide.show
> d.split
> d.vect.thematic
> db.dropcol
> db.in.ogr
> db.out.ogr
> db.test
> g.manual
> g.mlist
> g.mremove
> i.fusion.brovey
> i.image.mosaic
> i.in.spotvgt
> i.landsat.rgb
> i.oif
> i.spectral
> i.tasscap
> m.proj
> r.blend
> r.fillnulls
> r.in.aster
> r.in.srtm
> r.in.wms
> r.li.setup
> r.mapcalculator
> r.mask
> r.out.xyz
> r.plane
> r.reclass.area
> r.regression.line
> r.shaded.relief
> r.tileset
> r.univar.sh
> r3.mapcalculator
> v.build.all
> v.centroids
> v.convert.all
> v.db.addcol
> v.db.addtable
> v.db.join
> v.db.dropcol
> v.db.droptable
> v.db.renamecol
> v.db.reconnect.all
> v.db.univar
> v.db.update
> v.dissolve
> v.in.garmin
> v.in.e00
> v.in.gns
> v.in.gpsbabel
> v.in.mapgen
> v.in.sites.all
> v.in.wfs
> v.rast.stats
> v.report
> v.univar.sh
> v.what.vect
>