[winGRASS] problems with GRASS

[Richard Greenwood]

desa huyk wrote:
> Hi all:
>          
>        I am  a GIS developer , my previous experience was with ESRI & Intergraph products ........ and after I heared about GRASS  I became intersted to use it ....
> so I downloaded GRASS 5.7 for MS-WINDOWS  following the instructions BUT
>  
>  afetr the installation when I open the cygwin terminal  and writing : grass57 then press enter.. an error message appear 
> it's title is "wish8.3.exe - unable to locate component " and its content is " This application has failed to start because libX11.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem "  
>  
> and I re-insalled it but the problem is still exist.
>  
> and if i continued with the terminal another warning message appear..it's content is " It appears that the X windows system is not active . A graphical based user interface is not supported. Switching to text based interface mode "
>  
> 
You need to install X-Windows. Use the Cygwin setup.exe to do this.

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Richard Greenwood
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