On 31/10/07 11:29, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
The start command does actually work to put gis.m in the background.

Great !

I changed init.bat to read:

===
rem if return ok, gis.m start:
if %errorlevel% == 2 goto exitinit

if not "%GRASS_WISH%"=="" (
  start "GIS Manager" "%GRASS_WISH%" "%WINGISBASE%\etc\gm\gm.tcl"
  winterm.bat
) else (
  start "GIS Manager" "%WINGISBASE%\etc\gm\gm.tcl"
  winterm.bat
)
===

And that works fine for me. "winterm.bat" is in GRASS/bin and has these
contents:

===
rem starts a new WinGRASS terminal window

FOR /F "usebackq delims==" %%i IN (`g.gisenv "get=LOCATION_NAME"`) DO
@set LOCATION_NAME=%%i
prompt $C%LOCATION_NAME%$F:$P $G
cd "%HOMEPATH%"

cmd.exe /C start "GRASS %GRASS_VERSION% Shell" cmd.exe /E:ON /F:ON /V:ON

exit /B
===

ok, I'll test and commit, if it works for me as well.


FWIW, I also re-designed grass63.bat to make it easier to understand and
work. If you keep it in the dir above your GRASS installation, it should
be completely relocatable, w/o having to set any vars:

I have some issues with this:

- What is the problem with having a bin/ dir which contains grass63.bat and grass63 and a grass-6.3.cvs/ dir which is WINGISBASE ?

- More importantly: below setup seems to assume that GRASS is installed within the msys directory structure (e.g. set GRASS_SH=%CD%\bin\sh.exe). I honestly don't know what is easier for other users: tweak a few environmental variables in their grass63.bat (and this only if they want to have access to a msys shell - otherwise it should "out of the box") or mix the grass files into the msys tree...or moving around msys bins and libs to fit into the grass tree. The same holds true for the inclusion of R: I don't think that we should oblige all users to organise their files in the way you do. They should have more flexibility.
So, I still believe that:

rem Path to the shell command
rem set GRASS_SH=c:\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe

is a better solution (since allowing the user to install what they want where they want) than


> rem Path to the shell command. This assumes that sh.exe is in the
> subfolder "bin",
> rem relative to where this batch file was started from.
> set GRASS_SH=%CD%\bin\sh.exe


But I'm open for discussion on these issues.

Moritz


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