Want to know more about GRASS

[Rick Thompson]

Hello John,
  In addition to what David wrote, GRASS is now available as GRASSLANDS from
L.A.S. of Montreal. This software runs on Windows 95/NT and has recently been
released for sale at $850. You can contact Raymond Rivest (rr at las.com). They
also have some web info at http://www.cecer.army.mil/grass/LAS/ .
  Also, you can contact Dr. James Hinthorne (jimh at cwu.edu) of Central Washingto
n
Univ. He has been involved with a port of GRASS 4.1.5 to Machten Unix for Macs 
& Power Macs. 
  Finally, as David said, if you want to go the route of Linux, you can obtain
several binaries of GRASS. I have linux and compiled GRASS on my machine.
There are some bugs to work out when compiling, but it's a good system, I think
.

Rick

On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, David Mandel wrote:

> The only PC version I know of will be commercial and doesn't exist yet.
> I don't know of a Mac version; but GRASS was designed for Unix and it 
> wouldn't feel the same on another OS.
> 
> I suggest you consider Linux.  This is a real Unix which runs on
> PC hardware, and the GRASS port I got from Andreas Holz 
> <Andreas.Holz at oi32.kwu.siemens.de> seems pretty good to me.
> He charges US$60, and it is a lot easier than downloading the
> entire package from CERL.
> There is also a port for SCO Open Desk Top.  This also runs on PC
> hardware and gives one the false security of using a commercial OS.
> However, I think Linux is better than SCO-ODT, and I know Andreas'
> port is better than the SCO port.  (I did the SCO port myself a 
> couple years back.)
> 
>                                          Good Luck,
>                                          Dave Mandel  
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