[winGRASS] Navigating drives and directories

[Tyler Mitchell]

Hi Larry,
Cygwin uses Unix style drive/directory structures.  If you need to refer 
to a specific Windows drive letter you can do so two ways.  1) by going 
to the /cygdrive/ folder off the root, where you'll see your drive 
letters listed.  2) Or you use the drive letter with a slash after it 
instead of the typical backslash (or do I have that mixed up?).

So either of these should work in Cygwin:
/cygdrive/d/shapedata
or
d:/shapedata

Hope that helps - welcome aboard and welcome to the new world of spatial 
analysis, there is some exciting stuff going on with these great tools

Tyler

Larry Layne wrote:
> After successfully installing cygwin and GRASS 6.0.0 per the 
> instructions found at http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html I'm now trying to 
> begin learning the GRASS software, and am new to this mailing list. As a 
> short preface, I have been an ESRI software user (Arc/Info, ArcGIS, 
> ArcView 3.x) for 10 years, primarily on M$ OSes. Currently I use 
> computers running 2000 SP4 and XP SP1.
> 
> I installed cygwin according to the above instructions, specifically in 
> c:\cygwin. In GRASS, I specified the database to be in 
> c:\cygwin\home\laynent\grass_data with the LOCATION in newLocation. From 
> the "GRASS 6.0.0 Data Selection" window I can navigate to the /home 
> directory (= c:\cygwin\home) but no further (such as to the c:\ 
> directory). Likewise if I want to import data, such as a shapefile, in 
> the "v.in.ogr" window I cannot navigate further than the c:\cygwin 
> directory. That is, if my shapefile data is in the drive and directory 
> d:\shapedata\year2000 it appears that I would have to copy any 
> shapefiles in this directory into at least the c:\cygwin directory.
> 
> Is GRASS limited to working only within the c:\cygwin directory and its 
> subdirectories, or is there some setting that can be made so that I can 
> navigate to other drives and directories from within GRASS 6.0.0?
> 
> If there are help pages/manuals or messages in the mailing list that 
> deal with this issue, could you please direct me to them.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
> Larry
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