[winGRASS] Re: Problem on install GRASS

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 06:19:45PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Dear winGRASS users,
> > does anyone have a hint for Jennifer (please also cc to her)?
> > 
> > > I followed the instructions on your web site on how to install GRASS 5.0 on Win32 with Cygwin 1.x. My OS is Windows XP, the cygwin and XWindow (XFree86) can operate very well, but whenever I issue Grass command, the following messeage appears:
> > > 
> > > [: and: unknown operand
> > > usage: /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock file pid
> > > Unable to properly access /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Jennifer/.gislock5
> > > Please notify system personel.
> 
> GRASS cannot cope with spaces in filenames. You will need to create a
> new home directory, and force the environment variable HOME to be set
> to that instead. (Using "docume~1" instead of "Documents and Settings"
> *might* work, but I haven't tested it).

What about adding a test for spaces in the path in Init.sh?
If test successful, exit with error message, else continue.
We just get too many of these Windows/Space questions :-)

Markus