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From: shapiro at zorro.cecer.army.mil (Michael Shapiro)
Subject: Re: Interactive binaries - addendum
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 07:32:09 GMT
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In <9303311422.AA04530 at sparrow.bio.unipr.it> villa at sparrow.bio.unipr.it (Ferdinando Villa) writes:

>I failed to mention a couple of things about the binary distribution of
>GRASS 4.0 I uploaded yesterday. Here they follow:

>    1) the tar file has been packed with GNU tar. It can be untarred
>    with ISC tar (old and buggy) but the fifos in /dev will not be
>    extracted unless you use gnutar.

>    2) the shell script grass4.0 has been slightly hacked to get it
>    working with tcsh instead of csh. I recommend tcsh for the much
>    greater ease of use. It is available in executable form by ftp
>    on nic.funet.fi in /pub/unix/386ix/ics/shells. Email me if you
>    want an email copy.

>Someone reported problems with the Xdriver on a SLIP connection. I am
>trying to compile a new Xdriver. The distribution of X386 which I use
>requires TCP/IP to work, so it is possible that there are delays on
>slow lines since applications connect to the server via TCP sockets.

>Excuse me for the inconvenience. Sincerely, Ferdinando.

>--
>Ferdinando Villa, dr.

>Institute of Ecology                     Direct phone: +39-521-905615
>University of Parma                               FAX: +39-521-905665
>Viale delle Scienze                      e.mail: villa at sparrow.bio.unipr.it
>43100 Parma, Italy                               villa at aida.eng.unipr.it

(2) The shell script for 4.1beta is more intellegent about the
users normal SHELL and will support tcsh (may ksh as well).
-- 
Michael Shapiro               shapiro at zorro.cecer.army.mil
U.S. Army CERL                (217) 373-7277
P.O. Box 9005 
Champaign, Ill. 61826-9005