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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In response to Markus' request, I've
tested out the new Grass 5.4 Cygwin binary at <a
href="http://grass.itc.it/grass54/binary/mswindows_cygwin/">http://grass.itc.it/grass54/binary/mswindows_cygwin/</a>,
with my comments below.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Although I've only given it a quick
once-through, everything appears to be in working order. I was quite pleased
with it actually. The tcltkgrass GUI came up no problem, as did all display
monitors. Displaying and zoom/panning is no problem with any raster or vector
dataset. PNG driver is working nicely too.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>NVIZ is actually working fine, I ran into
no problems loading and manipulating a DEM.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>All g.* programs are working great,
I tried out g.region, g.list, g.mapsets, g.access.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Logging out was executed cleanly, with no
ugly error messages. Nice!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I suspect any big problems would have
shown themselves in some of the programs I used. However, I didn't try
out any hardcore raster/vector editing or processing programs. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I will continue working with this release
during the week and report on any glitches that arise.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I'm quite happy with what I've
seen so far. This binary install was by far the most painless to install and
get up and running. Thanks to Richard and Huidae and others for putting the time
in to make this release available.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>~ Eric.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=3 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Eric Patton</span></font></b></strong></p>
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