[winGRASS] XP problems?

[Glynn Clements]

Kenneth Cabrera wrote:

> I install all grass5 binary program in a XP platform in the
> same way I did for a windows 2000 platform...
> 
> But when I try to start grass5 on the xfree86 windows over cygwing
> I obtain the following message:
> 
> [Francisco/.grassrc5: unknown operand
> usage: /usr/local/grass5/etc/lock file pid
> Unable to properly access /home/Javier Francisco (Nombre del administrador)
> /.gislock5
> Please notify system personel.

It appears that Cygwin has set $HOME to the string:

	/home/Javier Francisco (Nombre del administrador)

GRASS can't reliably handle filenames which contain spaces or shell
metacharacters (e.g. parentheses).

I suggest creating a new home directory, and explicitly setting HOME,
i.e.

	HOME=/home/something
	export HOME

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>