[winGRASS] d.mon/fifo problems

[Jaro Hofierka]

Malcolm,

the problem was in my incomplete installation of cygwin. d.mon works 
fine now.
I was confused by those fifo error messages during compilation.
Thanks for your help.

Jaro

Malcolm Blue wrote:

>Hello,
>
>The newer versions of Grass use sockets by default, instead of the old
>fifo method.  This has been shown to be more compatible with the newer
>OS's used by Grass users.  To use this method you don't have to specify
>anything extra on the configure or compile command lines. ( to use fifo
>requires external routines/libraries, which are available but probably
>not tested with recent version of Grass.)
>
>If you used the default compile method, you should have d.mon working.
>I still get the following message in my compile log file:
>
>"mkfifo: cannot create fifo ``/grass/dist.i686-pc-cygwin/dev/fifo.tmp'':
>Function not implemented"
>
>But this is not relevant since sockets have been supported.  The d.mon
>commands still work.
>
>If you have trouble starting a monitor using d.mon using the default
>compile, then I think we need to check further.  What happens when you
>use 'd.mon start=x0' at the grass prompt?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Malcolm
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it 
>>[mailto:wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it] On Behalf Of Jaro Hofierka
>>Sent: January 3, 2003 3:54 AM
>>To: wingrass at grass.itc.it
>>Subject: [winGRASS] d.mon/fifo problems
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm having problems installing GRASS5.0.0 on cygwin/W2000 
>>Professional. I compiled the source code and everything went 
>>OK except for fifo creation in dev directory. Apparently 
>>mknod and mkfifo commands do not work properly in cygwin (at 
>>least in my release) - I am getting message "Function is not 
>>implemented". Can you advise me how to start d.mon monitor 
>>now? NVIZ works fine, though rather slow. But for simple and 
>>quick visualization I would need d.mon as well.
>>
>>Thanks for any hints!
>>
>>Jaro
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