[winGRASS] Question

[Alberto Fritis F.]

I am Alberto Fritis ,student of Hydraulic Engineering of the Catholic 
University of Chile, at the moment I am working in the installation of Grass 
5,0, but found some difficulties. The main one occurs when opening 
stargrass.bat a message appears indicating an error with xmodmap, I imagine 
that it is related to Cygwin.

The OS that I have installed in my computer is Windows 2000 professional 
edition. I have followed the installation document step by step, but I have 
not been successful. One of the hypothesis I am considering is one of mutual 
incompatibility with the hardware of the computer, another is that something 
is not installed correctly because the files which are indicated in the 
installation document have changed name. Can you indicate me the new file 
names ? .Also I believe that another source of error is the mutual 
incompatibility of software with the platform I am using. 

I am not very familiar with UNIX. the other question I have has to do with 
the execution of the program, is grass5 the command to make begin the 
program operate?. Can this same command be introduced directly in the batch 
or must I be located in /usr/local/bin. I have tried several options without 
success. Another question that I have is like publishing stargrass.bat since 
according to the installation document a modification according to the local 
conditions is due to do . 


Another problem with which I found is that the Web pages with the detailed 
installation procedure are apparently outdated. Can you send me a document 
of installation more recent than the one than I found and that it has date 
2002/12/18. I would need more specific instructions to install and operate 
Grass 5.0 under Windows 2000. Links indicated in this same document have 
been changed. 


I would greatly appreciate your help with the above questions. Thank you 
very much 


Alberto Fritis
Student
Civil Hydraulic Engineering
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
afritis at puc.cl