[GRASSLIST:6087] Re: moving layers from one machine to another

[Radim Blazek]

Thanks to all who tested the portability.

Radim


Hamish wrote:
>>>>>>Anybody successfully used files created on Linux on Mac?
>>>>>>Can users with access to more platforms to test that?
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> I have just tested. Everything seems to work ok for me.
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> Linux/i686: 6.0.0cvs (2 days old)
> Mac/G4:     6.0beta1 (Lorenzo's binaries + libraries)
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> downloaded spearfish57 onto Mac. Areas, lines, and points maps all
> display fine.
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> on linux, made tar.gz of vector/ and dbf/ dirs and unpacked in a mapset
> of the same projection. Areas, lines, and points maps all display &
> query fine.
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> didn't try Mac -> Linux.
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> I can only guess that the problems have to do with transfering between
> current 6.0 on linux and older 5.7 binaries on Mac or vice versa (solved
> by v.build.all). OR transfering via a web browser or FTP program that
> modifies newlines.
> ??
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> I guess if spearfish57 vectors really didn't work on Mac, we would have
> heard about it by now. hopefully...?
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> AFAICT it's good to go Radim.
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> can anybody else test?
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> 
> Hamish