Acquiring GRASS

[Malcolm Williamson]

On Thu, 18 May 1995, Gigi Horsefield wrote:

> Hello,
>      We have a Sun station which is running on Solaris. From past 
> e-mailations there seems to be some difficulty in downloading GRASS 
> on such a set-up. Is there anyone out there who would be willing to 
This is not really a problem; plenty of people of running GRASS under 
Solaris 2.3 (I can't speak for 2.4), and compiled executables are 
available if you do not care to compile yourself (of course, missing out 
on all of the good contributed code :-) ).

> help us get started? Also, is there a PC GRASS available? and can 
Currently, the only way to run GRASS on a PC is to install some version 
of UNIX (or a clone). Many people seem to be using Linux, a public domain 
UNIX clone, with GRASS on PCs. See this list for other references to 
this. In September, LAS Inc. of Quebec is supposed to be releasing a 
commercial version of their tcl/tkgrass product, which includes a very 
nice GUI with GRASS, for MicroSoft Windows. This will _not_ be free.

> one find LTPlus on the moon? At present we have a digitizer which is 
LTPlus is included with the full GRASS source code.

> hooked-up to a PC and digitization is done with PC ARC/INFO. The 
> trouble is that we may be quitting our ARC/INFO license due to a 
> mighty rise in fees. Can LTPlus be loaded onto a PC and then have 
> the digitized filed ftped to the SUN workstation to be massaged by a 
> UNIX GRASS?
> 
>                                                    Gigi Horsfield
>                                                    gigi.geography at geography.o
x.ac.uk
> 
> ps: I have turned off the Confirm delivery and Confirm reading, I think. 
> I find that I frequently get duplicates or triplicates of messages and 
> confirmation of delivery of messages which I did not send but 
> somehow my name is listed as the sender! 'Very Strange' as the 
> Beatles sing in Penny Lane.
>