Where is GISGEN ?

[Greg Koerper]

> 	Howdy,
> 
> 	I have just downloaded the GRASS sun binaries from moon.cerer.army.mil .
> I have a problems which I hope someone will be able to help me with.  
> 
> 	xgrass4.1 comes up fine when I start it.  When I try to set a display
> ( "d.mon start=x0" )I can't.  I get a message about problem selecting x0,
> look at the monitorcap file.  The installation guide says I should have named 
> pipes created by GISGEN.  But since I just down loaded the binary 
> I don't have GISGEN.  Nor do I have any of the other stuff in the source
>  directory. 
> 	Could some kind soul please help me out.  Either tell me that is 
> I should RTFM on page ... the answere is clear.  Or email me GISGEN and
>  other files I might need to solve this problem, or maybe even a 
> clue on what I should do.
>
Sounds like you need to do the following (from GISGEN.sh)

# create fifo files for graphics drivers
for i in a b
do
        fifo=0
        while test $fifo -lt 21
        do
                if test ! -f $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
                then
                /etc/mknod $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i p
                chmod 0666 $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
                echo $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i created
                fi
                fifo=`expr $fifo + 1`
        done
done

as specified under src/CMD/generic/GISGEN.sh which you apparently do not have.
Be sure to obtain a copy of the installation manual which describes this
and other interesting nuances.  If my memory serves me well (a rare event
these days), it is at the ftp site under 

	/grass/grass4.1/releaseInfo/betaRelease.notes 

or some such thing.  This will explain the relationship between the fifos
(some day I'll give this name to a dog) and the monitorcap file.

greg

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> 
> 						Thanx
> 
> 						Patrick Jones
> 						plj at mitre.org
> 
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