[winGRASS] V.type

[Michael Barton]

Hamish (I think) created v.type.sh because as it is written, v.type creates
an almost unusable GUI. You cannot select the proper vector type pairs to
translate from one to the other.

Michael


On 11/9/07 4:28 PM, "Moritz Lennert" <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:

> Sampson, David wrote:
>> Got the following error when trying VECTOR > CONVERT OBJECT TYPES
>> 
>> 
>> Couldn't execute "Š.etc\gui\scripts\v.type.sh"
>> 
>> I was then left with a blank window #24
> 
> AFAICT, this is due to the fact that the tcl exec command runs a command
> just as the native os would run it and that windows does not know how to
> execute a .sh file.
> 
> I have been able to get it to work by doing the following:
> 
> - Create a file v.types.bat in $GISBASE/bin containing
> @"%GRASS_SH%" -c '"%GISBASE%/etc/gui/scripts/v.types" %*'
> 
> and renamed GISBASE/etc/gui/scripts/v.type.sh to v.types (no .sh, but an
> 's' at the end). Apparently the .sh extension just doesn't work, and
> using v.type for any of the two file names creates a conflict with
> v.type.exe, the C-module.
> 
> I imagine that renaming v.type.sh to v.type should not create any
> compatibility problems since this is an internal script not to be used
> directly by the user. However, we need to create a v.types.bat which
> lives next to the v.type executable in the bin folder. I don't know how
> to do this automatically.
> 
> But probably there is some more elegant way...
> 
> Moritz
> 

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