GRASS4.1 and rsh commands

[Malcolm Williamson]

> 
> For a variety of reasons, we have been calling GRASS4.0 executables via remote
> shell commands. This strategy works well for any routine which can be fully
> specified through command-line arguments, but breaks down when more interaction
> is required, eg, d.3d, d.where, d.what, etc. We can live with that. My question
> is whether we can expect to keep doing this if we move to release 4.1, ie, are
> the graphics and the executables sufficiently decoupled?
>  
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> Conn V Copas
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> 

Unless you are specifically contemplating the use of XGRASS (which is really
outside of GRASS4.1), you should find GRASS4.1 entirely backwardly compatible`
with GRASS4.0. It is really a set of improvements and additions to 4.0.

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