== Scope of this page ==

This pages is intended to users and developers who want to test a GRASS installation (test protocol). As side effect, you can also showcase GRASS 6 using these commands.

== Requirements ==

 * GRASS 6 installation ([wiki:DownloadSource source code] and [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/index.php binaries] download)
 * Educational data set: OSGeo Educational data set North Carolina: [http://grass.osgeo.org/sampledata/nc_spm_07_2007_dec20.tar.gz data] and [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php description].

== Start of the program ==

GRASS 6 is started either from the menu (if installed therein) or from command line. In all cases, select mapset "user1".

{{{
# show available options
grass63 --help
}}}

''Expected result: the help text should be shown.''

{{{
# start with old Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface (d.m)
grass63 -oldtcltk

# start with current Tcl/Tk based graphical user interface (g.gis)
grass63 -tcltk

# start with wxPython based graphical user interface
grass63 -wxpython
}}}

''Expected result: the selected graphical user interface should come up.''

{{{
# start with text based interface
grass63 -text
}}}


''Expected result: the text user interface should come up.''

== Display various maps (not native winGRASS) ==

{{{
g.region rast=elevation
d.mon x0
d.rast elevation
d.vect roadsmajor
}}}

''Expected result: GRASS monitor should open and show the selected maps''

{{{
d.his i=elevation_shade h=elevation
d.vect roadsmajor

# set barscale position per mouse click into map:
d.barscale -mt
}}}