GRASS "5.0"

[Jim Westervelt]

For those interested in GRASS "5.0".

Find on ftp.gis.uiuc.edu under pub/grass5.0 two tar.Z files:
  A src tree
  A binary tree compiled under Solaris 5.5

These are extracted directly from the developer's area on the CERL machines
(where GRASS releases were made).  I believe there is nothing here that
couldn't be assembled from the GRASS 4.1 release and upgrades stored on
moon.cecer.army.mil  The difference is that it's all assembled in one
place!  You'll still need to visit moon to extract documentation and many
of the contributed programs.

Please note that these files represent an unofficial/informal release of a
version of GRASS that supports floating-point numbers and the separation of
null/0 values.  Perhaps $1M was invested past GRASS4.1, so there is quite a
lot here.  However, the usual alpha and beta releases with associated bug
fixes were never done.  I, however have been thrilled with this version and
have only run into problems with a few programs.  Keeping grass4.1 around
helps me work around those problems however.

As always, this code is freely distributable and comes with no warranty of
any kind.  Use it, commercialize it, love it!

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For LINUX users, David Hastings at NOAA wrote:

I know of two locations publicly posting GRASS 4.x for Linux:

1. CERL's ftp site "moon" has the version that I first used, and still use
at the office.
2. The REGIS project at the University of California at Berkeley has a
version.  I believe that you can start at their Website
(http://www.regis.berkeley.edu) and find your way to those materials.

In addition, I compiled the GRASS 4.1.5 source (5.0) code on my home Linux box,
and use that version at home.  As often happens for me, a couple of
functions did not compile - fortunately ones that I can live without.  I
want to get back to fixing and recompiling those functions, but it hasn't
been a high priority up to now.  Incidentally, the compilation, using gcc
for the C compiler, went fairly smoothly on my home Linux box.  Indeed,
the compilation went much more easily than our current compilation under
Solaris on a Sun box at the office...



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