GRASSLAND FAQ

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> Liane Levesque
> Marketing Director 
>                                              tel. : (514) 858-1104
> LAS Inc.                                     fax  : (514) 389-9373
> 1570 Chabanel Ouest                          email: ll at las.com
> Montreal, Quebec
> Canada
> H4N 1H4
> What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
> 
> 
> 
> -------------- Enclosure number 1 ----------------
> 
> 1. What are the main differences between GRASS4.1 and GRASSLAND 1.0 ?
> 
> 
>   GRASSLAND 1.0 is an implementation of GRASS4.1 inside an easy to use Graphi
cal
>   User Interface. It runs under Microsoft Windows/95 and Windows/NT and will
>   very soon run a few flavor of UNIX. Beside the basic GRASS4.1 spatial analy
sis
>   functions, GRASSLAND 1.0 is equipped with some new and very useful features
:
>
>  ............> 
> 
> 
> 5. Can I include my own GRASS functions into GRASSLAND 1.0 ?
> 
> 
> 
>   The openess of GRASS4.1 is certainly one of its most important feature. 
> 
>   LAS' development team has worked very hard to keep all GRASS libraries iden
tical
>   to the orginal UNIX version. We have created a series of .DLL libraries tha
t
>   mimic all aspect of the most important GRASS4.1 libraries: libgis.a, libvec
t.a and
>   libdig.a. Other libraries have been implemented as statically link librarie
s except
>   libvask.a which we couldn't port at all. We also made a GISGEN and a GMAKE4
.1 script
>   to facilitate compilation.
> 
>   This development environment has allowed us to port without difficulty all 
functions
>   described above. Therefore, it should be suitable for any other functions. 
> 
>   It is also possible to easily create a GUI clip for each function and to in
tegrate
>   the result into GRASSLAND 1.0. 
> 
>   LAS is currently putting together a development package ( with documentatio
n ) with all
>   these tools included. This package will be made available at no cost for de
velopers
>   willing to contribute back their work to the users community. The  developm
ent package 
>   will run on top of Microsoft Visual C++ and will ( unless someone supplies 
a good
>   replacement) also require the MKS toolkit for NT/95.
> 

OK , I had the answer, in this preceeding Mail ...

So, what about this development package ?
 Is it already available?

Merci à nouveau et a bientot

JM Roques