Installing Binary version Grass4.1

Raymond Venneker venn at geo.vu.nl
Thu Nov 11 07:44:59 EST 1993


On Nov 10 1993 Wenli <yang at spot.unl.edu> wrote:

> I am trying to install the binary version of Grass4.1 on our SUN
> SPARCstation 2 (with SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B).  I got all the files in
> the directory "grass/grass4.1/release/binary/sun4" from Grass
> ftp site "moon.cecer.army.mil".  According to README file, I can
> use   "cat [dist] | zcat | (cd [destination]; cpio -icdmv)"
> to unpack all the cpio format files. I got certain error messages 
> when I tried to do so:
> 
> 
>  cat bin-sun4.cpio.Z.0001 | zcat | (cd /n/grass4.1; cpio -icdmv)

Make this read as bin-sun4.cpio.Z.*

> 
> >gmake4.1
> >bin/xclip4.1
> >bin/xgexec
> >cpio: Can't read input: : No such file or directory

Because the input was in ...0002

> 
>  cat bin-sun4.cpio.Z.0002 | zcat | (cd /n/grass4.1; cpio -icdmv)
> 
> >zcat: stdin: not in gzip format
> >cpio: Can't read input: : Error 0

	Only file ...0001 containes the infermation needed by [g]zcat

Good luck, Raymond



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