Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-25 Thread Markus Neteler
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Frank Bilki wrote: > Hi All, > > Being very, very new to GRASS (6.4.0svn, installed via OSGeo4W) I am reading > as much documentation as I can lay my hands on, but I keep hitting a > recurring problem: > > Every time I run g.manual I get an error saying it cannot fi

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Bilki
d purpose of all the batch files isn't clear to me at the moment but I will help where I can to diagnose the problem. Cheers, Frank -- Message: 2 Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:48:52 +0200 From: Markus Neteler Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Progr

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-25 Thread Milton Cezar Ribeiro
t; > Frank > > -------------- > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:48:52 +0200 > From: Markus Neteler > Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet > Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer&

RE: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-25 Thread Frank Bilki
ho.astrona...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 26 July 2009 2:05 PM To: Frank Bilki Cc: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org; neteler.os...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer') Hi Frank,   Try: set

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-26 Thread Hamish
Frank Bilki wrote: > Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet > Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer') this is osgeo4w bug #86, http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-grass#Errata https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/w

RE: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-26 Thread Glynn Clements
Frank Bilki wrote: > That worked! Thanks so much for the suggestion. > > I experimented with combining the forward slashes and the full pathname with > spaces (e.g. C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore) and that also > worked. So it seems the cause was using back-slashes instead of > forw

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-26 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: > > rem Path to your web browser > > rem set > > GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=%SYSTEMDRIVE%\PROGRA~1\INTERN~1\IEXPLORE.EXE > > ... > > > > I also tried changing the above statement to: > > set GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet > > Explorer\iexplore.exe > > > > but I still got the s

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-26 Thread Hamish
Glynn Clements wrote: > Could anyone clarify which of the following are valid > arguments to GRASS_HTML_BROWSER? > > 1. A native filename, e.g.: > >     C:\GRASS\docs\html\index.html > > 2. A Unix-ish filename, e.g.: > >     C:/GRASS/docs/html/index.html the above failed on ms windows, which s

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-26 Thread Frank Bilki
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Hamish wrote: > I think it is fixed but the osgeo4w GRASS package is so far > out of date now & so untested.. Is it possible to update the OSGeo4W installation using (say) the WinGRASS-6.4.0RC5-1 setup, or would that just cause more problems than it's worth? As a

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-27 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: > > Could anyone clarify which of the following are valid > > arguments to GRASS_HTML_BROWSER? > > > > 1. A native filename, e.g.: > > > >     C:\GRASS\docs\html\index.html > > > > 2. A Unix-ish filename, e.g.: > > > >     C:/GRASS/docs/html/index.html > > the above failed on m

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-28 Thread Colin Nielsen
The variable's value should point to a browser's exe, not the index.html of the docs folder. Given that, more odd behaviour of g.manual re the variable. When running wingrass through an msys terminal (r37101) The following all worked export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER="c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\i

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-28 Thread Glynn Clements
Colin Nielsen wrote: > These failed: > export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=/c/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe > export GRASS_HTML_BROWSER=c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe (no > quotes) This is down to the "export" command terminating the value at the first space. > export GRA

Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-28 Thread Hamish
Glynn wrote: > Can you modify the script to print its arguments? And > g.manual to print out $GRASS_HTML_BROWSER. note1 that until Maris's space-in-filename fixes in 6.5svn have been reviewed & backported to 6.4 we may just be chasing things already fixed and not being efficient in our use of time

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-27 Thread Maris Nartiss
On Linux proper default would be calling "xdg-open file|URL". Maris. 2009/7/27, Glynn Clements : > > BTW: > > AFAICT, the "right" way to open files on Windows is to simply run them > via the shell, e.g. pointing GRASS_HTML_BROWSER at a batch file > containing: > -- > Glynn Clements ___

Re: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] g.manual tries to run C:\Program Files\Internet Exporer\iexplore (the 'L' is missing from 'Explorer')

2009-07-29 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish wrote: > For GRASS_HTML_BROWSER, it is read in a number of contexts by e.g. > by g.manual shell script (6.x), g.manual python (7.x), wxGUI, > tcl/tk GUI, grass-run.bat, gui startups, ... > > so it needs to be both cross-platform, cross-language, and cross- > environment (msys vs dos). thu