[GRASS-user] Grass "stability"

[Maning Sambale]

Glynn,

Thank you for clearing things out.  Will check and report results by
next week.

Have a nice weekend!

maning
> 1. xterm doesn't use the clipboard by default, but the primary
> selection. Consequently, you can't paste the selection with e.g. 
> Ctrl-V or Shift-Insert. This can be changed via the "Select to
> Clipboard" option in the menu obtained from Ctrl+Button2 (the middle
> button).
> 
> 2. The X server needs to be started with the -clipboard switch to
> enable synchronisation between the X clipboard and the Windows
> clipboard.
> 
> > 2.  Some of my simple scripts (for batch import of vector and raster)
> > are not working, both under the startxwin.sh and cygwin bash running
> > in Poderosa.
> > 
> > I don't think this is due to GRASS but more of the cygwin's bash
> > shell.
> 
> There isn't much different between Cygwin's bash and any other version
> of bash.
> 
> Common causes of problems with shell scripts on Windows include:
> 
> 1. Forgetting to put quotes around variables, i.e. "$variable". If you
> omit the quotes, it will likely do the wrong thing if the value
> contains spaces, and spaces in pathnames are far more common on
> Windows than on Unix.
> 
> 2. Incompatible programs in the path. E.g. if the System32 directory
> is at the beginning of $PATH, "find" will refer to the Windows utility
> of that name. Ditto for "sort".
>