source vs binary

[okata at mail.ncku.edu.tw]

Dear Rica :

  About one week ago, I have encountered a problem as you mentioned
in your question (2). I have successfully installed binary release of
Xgrass4.1 for SUNSparc 2,SUN OS 4.1.2 using Openwin 3.0 and XDRIVER.

  First of all, what you have to do is to download binary files,
g.4.cpio.Z.* & xg.4.cpoio.Z.* from the moon.
( all are storyed in the  .../release/binary/SUN4 directory.)

  Secondly, you should follow the steps described in g.4.README and
xg.4.README files. Remember to umcompress and install Grass4.1 first.
Otherwise, you cannot run Xgrass4.1 successfully on your system.

  For Graphics Driver, Grass4.1 can support CELL,SUNVIEW,and XDRIVER.
Therefore,if you have any one of them installed on your SUN workstation,
you will be very happy with the performance of Xgrass.


>Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 1994 11:49:05 -0400
>From: saporta at smokey.forestry.utoronto.ca (Rica Saporta)
>Subject: source vs binary


>good day, again,
>as most of you have probably surrmized, i am no sys-op nor an expert in
>UNIX, but it has still fallen on me to install GRASS - an
>adventure i am looking forward to >:)

>i would really appreciate some help on these two wuestions:
>1) as suggested by many of you i ftp'd GohstView in the form
>   of the file gsview11.zip: here is the rub, what is a zip file?
>   I have tried moving the file to DOS and using PKUNZIP, which
>   is the only thing i could think of, but PKUNZIP dosen't
>   know what to do with the expanded files (litteraly) so it
>   aborts.  any thoughts (i didnt use UNCOMPRESS because its not
>   a .Z file)

>2) i have read the installation guide from the moon and understood
>   most of it. here is the question.
>    a) if i have a SUN SparcStation 10 using SunOS 4.1.3 and
>       OpenWindows version 3, can i use the binaries or do
>       i need to use the source files/
>       (i understand that the binary was compile for a certain
>        Sun architecture but its not mentioned as far as i can tell)
>    b) do i install grass or sould i install the Xdriver for xgrass?


>thank you very much for any help you can send this way ...

>rica "lost in the wide open medows" saporta