[GRASS5] Re: Fort Hood Information System

[Helena]

I actually got an email from Van Warren some time ago and posted his recolection
of how GRASS was started as a Fort Hood Information System on the GRASS web site (under history) -
http://grass.itc.it/vanwarren.html
  I have scanned few pages of the original report and posted it there too -
there is a link to it (or go directly to http://grass.itc.it/fhgis83rep.html)
You will see that a lot of concepts that are still in GRASS (including the "location")
were in the original version (it also helps to understand why it was designed like that)
so it is not surprising that it is possible to find some original code there.

Helena


> 
> While fixing g.help I noticed some comments in the source code refer to the
> Fort Hood Information System. I think this was GRASS's name before
> GRASS...this code must go back to the very early 1980s. Interesting to see
> something so old: :)
> 
> /*=====================================================================
>  |      This package of menu routines was developed according to the
>  |      protocal designed and specified by Van Warren for the Fort Hood
>  |      Information System. The implementation was catered and prepared
>  |      by James Bozek. Thus, to a notoriously well-nourished system
>  |      such as VAX/UNIX is brought yet another exquisit co-authored
>  |      culinary delicacy.
>  |
>  |====================================================================
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:24:05 +0100
> From: Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti at bologna.enea.it>
> To: Paul Kelly <paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:2714] Re: Grass 5.3-5.7 OS X bin ready. Install ...
>      (fwd)
> 
> I put the file
> Errors_Grass53_2004_02_21_shared_lib.txt
> in Grass for MAC OS X site
> http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/
> 
> It's complete with all error
> 
> Cheers
>