[GRASS-user] launching a gui

[Moritz Lennert]

On 09/04/09 17:17, Chris Heys wrote:
> On 08/04/09 13:33, Chris Heys wrote:
>  > Dear Experts
>  >  Could somebody explain to me how to launch the Grass GUI ?
>  > I am running Grass62 under Cygwin.
>  > When I type tcltkgrass &, the response that I get is always something 
> like
>  >  [1] 3528
>  > bash: tcltkgrass: command not found
>  >  What am I doing wrong?
> tcltkgrass is deprecated, use 'gis.m'.
> Moritz
> Dear Moritz
> Many thanks for the quick reply - and for your excellent tutorial, which 
> I am finding most helpful.
> Your suggested remedy, that of using gis.m, is unfortunately not working 
> for me.
> There is no error message, just nothing at all.
> Perhaps I should have mentioned that, when I first start Grass, I get 
> two error messages.
> They are
> sh: clear: command not found
> /usr/local/grass-6.2.3/etc/Init.sh: line 635: tput: command not found
> I have had a look in Init.sh and the bad line reads 'tput clear'.
> Without asking you to spend a lot of time on the matter, could you 
> briefly suggest something else that I might try?
> Is there something that I have failed to download?

ncurses ?

Any special reason why you want to use the cygwin version ? The native 
windows versions have become pretty good by now.

You can get the latest here:
http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/WinGRASS-6.4.0RC3-1-Setup.exe

Moritz