[GRASS5] Re: grass5.11 pre beta

[Markus Neteler]

Richard,

I have bounced your mail to the developers list:
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Please subscribe as we discuss such issues there.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:40:51PM -0700, Richard Christofferson wrote:
> Well! in setting up grass5.11, I was under the impression that 
> the unisys patented gif algorithm did not affect my raster files
> as they reside in a cell directory, such as:
> /local/grassdata/lovenia/PERMANENT/cell
> 
> So I did not run the fp_uncompress.sh on it.
That's correct.

Note: There is r.lwz2z now which makes the conversio much more easy:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/announces/announce_lzw_removal.html
(see at bottom)

> The problem is I cant get grass5.11 to show the raster images.
> The other versions of Grass I have (grass5.8) work fine, but I'm 
> having bad problems with my monitor.. d.rast fails and then it seems
> that grass loses contact with the monitor and I have to kill it by a
> running kill on the monitors pid.
That's strange. In fact we have been facing some problems here which
are fixed now. But I don't know if they affect the pre1-release.
I will put out src_pre2 today to be sure.

> Feeling much chastened I ran the uncompress and recompress scripts on 
> all my locations but that did not seem to help matters. Things remain
> much the same as they were.
> 
> I removed the grass5.11 home dir and reinstalled after the recompression
> but that also did not help.
> 
> So essentially I'm not sure if this is an LZW problem or some other one.
> And if it is an LZW related, issue what is the fix needed, after
> installing without running the compression scripts?
Please try once again with r.lzw2z. It should tell you everything.

> This is a non production machine so I'm not too worried about what I 
> do to it.
That's good!
 
> Well thats that! please tell me if there is another forum for replying
> on pre-beta testing as I'm unsure as to how to proceed..
I'll cc this to "grass5" as well. Talk to you there.

Thanks for your notes,

 Markus

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