[GRASS-user] launching a gui

[Chris Heys]

> 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.

At Moritz's suggestion I have downloaded ncurses - indeed, the full Utils package - from Cygwin.
And the two error messages, of which I was complaining, have disappeared.
 
MORITZ IS A GENIUS
 
But, gis.m still does not work.
It looks as though the default Cygwin download, which is not a full download, is not enough.
I was hoping to use Cygwin because most of the online tutorials assume a Unix environment.
Some of the tutorials are themselves tar.gz files.
And Marcus's book is quite expensive.
I don't want to buy the book unless the Cygwin/Grass combination works.
So I have started using the native Windows version of Grass, at first with the Spearfish60 data.
And I have made some progress.
But 'd.vect roads' does not change what I see on the screen.
It creates a file called 'map.png'.
Sorry to keep asking for help, but how do I display the 'roads' map in a window?


      
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