New version of Beginner's Manual

[martijn at scanner.frw.uva.nl]

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NOTICE:  A new version of the GRASS Beginner's Manual is available by
	 anonymous ftp from scanner.frw.uva.nl (145.18.122.19). This 
	 email includes a description of how to get it and what it's
	 NOT.
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1) What's available?
   A WordPerfect 5.1 formatted document aimed at helping beginning GRASS
Users through their first week. It is based on the experience of student
level users at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of the University
of Amsterdam. Some sections describe the use and problems of our specific
configuration of hard- and software, and these may not be of interest to
others.

2) What's not available?
   A PostScript version of this document. If you want PostScript, you must
convert the WordPerfect version yourself. 
   Although the document contains a section describing other GRASS docu-
mentation and its contents, information from those documents generally has
not been copied, to avoid ending up with an unwieldy book. You're supposed
to get as much documentation as possible from the normal sources (OGI, moon.cecer.army.mil).

3) How to get it?
   The document lives on scanner.frw.uva.nl in the directory 
/ftp/pub. It's called grass_doc.wp. Use anonymous ftp to login, set type
to binary, cd to pub, and get grass_doc.wp.

4) What can you do for other Grass users?
   A Grass Beginner's Manual would benefit from comments and additions
from users all over the world. If you have such comments, please follow
this procedure:
- first, check that your comment isn't anywhere in the existing docu-
  mentation
- next, email your comment to MARTIJN at SCANNER.FRW.UVA.NL.
I will screen your comments and update the text accordingly. The Office
of Grass Integration has expressed interest in the document and may
take over the task of updating and publishing it later on.

Martijn van Leusen