[winGRASS] Problems with the operation of grass5

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:19:38PM +0000, Alberto Fritis F. wrote:
> Dear Friends:
> 
> After many attempts and changes I have managed to make begin grass with 
> cygwin. Now my problem is with the operation. I have unloaded the data 
> spearfish, also I have decompressed them. They have been lodged in 
> /usr/local/grassdata. 
> 
> When writing grass5 the shown screen is the following: 
> 
> WELCOME TO GRASS            version 5.0.0pre3   january 2002 
[...]
> 
> Then I press return. 
> 
> Then it appears another screen that location requests, database and Mapset. 
> In location I write spearfish,
right.

> in mapset I write permanent (also I have 
working, but you better use your user name to work in an own
mapset leaving PERMANENT as is.

> tried with my username), 

It will ask you: "Really create mapset XXX", you will answer "y".
(mhh, does it really ask? can't remember. anyway.).

> in database I write 
> /usr/local/grassdata/spearfish/PERMANENT. 

Wrong. Here you have to specify only the path:
/usr/local/grassdata

(spearfish/PERMANENT was already defined above).

Cheers

 Markus