----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric & Elga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <grass-user@lists.osgeo.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to import some raster and vector type maps
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eric & Elga wrote: > Very new user of GRASS, I was finally able to run the native Wingrass63RC5 under Win2k after renaming the "wish85.exe" and "tclsh85.exe" into "wish.exe" and "tclsh.exe" (is that correct ?). As you've seen that works, or you can also set the environment variable GRASS_WISH to wish85.exe and that should also work. If you don't like setting environment variables in Windows you can edit the line containing GRASS_WISH in grass63.bat (the startup script) to achieve the same result. > After having created a new project location, I try to import SRTM3 and SWBD files but when I call the modules "r.in.srtm" or "v.in.e00" through the menu, they crash telling me that the « child process exited abnormally ». This happens also with the "Terra ASTER" and "SPOT NDVI" ones for example, while others, like "Binary", seem to work fine. r.in.srtm and v.in.e00 are shell scripts and will not run on a normal Windows installation. You need to install a Bash shell environment if you want to use them - most people use MinGW and Msys for this. Then you need to make sure the GRASS_SH environment variable is set to the location of your sh.exe or bash.exe shell, and also make sure that the MinGW and MSys bin directories are in your PATH. Again, there are example lines you can edit in grass63.bat if you want to set this up without editing Windows environment variables directly. > If I use QGIS to call the module "r.in.srtm" it doesn't crash, but when I specify a compressed (or even uncompressed) SRTM file (without the ".hgt.zip" extension), it tells me « "unzip" and "file" are required, please install them first ». For "v.in.e00" it tells me « 'avcimport' program not found, install it first ». All this is telling you that QGIS has partly set up the required Unix shell environment for you to run those scripts (r.in.srtm/v.in.e00) but not all the Unix commands you need are available on your system. Check first that unzip.exe and file.exe really aren't there in your Msys or Mingw directories - they might be there but just not in the PATH. If not you may be able to get them from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/, although I'm not sure exactly which package they'd be in. I'm not sure where you'd get avcimport from. Hope this makes things clearer; I'm not sure if it will get you anywhere though. Paul Thanks a lot Paul. I'll try this installing MinGW or Msys, as I thought it wasn't necessary with the native win version. I'll keep you posted. Greetings. Eric _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
