[Mingw-msys] MSYS won't Display Command Prompt

[Ryan R. <ucl...@gm...>]

I have a student that is trying to use GRASS via MSYS. He has Windows XP.
When he tries to load the GRASS shell, a black box appears with a cursor,
but no command prompt.
When he attempts to run GRASS, anything that requires the command prompt
causes GRASS to hang.

Has anybody experienced MSYS not loading a command prompt? Any ideas on a
solution?

Thanks,
Ryan