Read-only GRASS ...

[Andreas Holz]

Peter?Halls??at?Sep?12??95?01?54?20?pm at bnr.ca>
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> Is there any way of configuring grass to run from a read-only device?
> I have a user with a non-networked workstation who wishes to run grass 
> off the CD ... but, obviously, grass/go/locks will then not be writable 
> ... can this be worked around?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter

Hello Peter,

        shure, there are possibilities to run GRASS form a ro-device. As
        example take my GRASS CD for Linux. A small runtime (approx 9-31Mb)
        has to installed on hard-disk, the rest remains on CD including
        the example databases.

Greetings

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