ANNOUNCE: GRASS 5 beta5 officially released

[Markus Neteler]

Dear GRASS Community,

today the sources of GRASS 5 beta5 are released. Find
them at 

GRASS GIS Europe site
 http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/

and

GRASS GIS Baylor site
 http://www.baylor.edu/~grass/

We create selected binaries later this day. A lot
of modules could be improved, GRASS 5 becomes usable
now!

What's new in GRASS 5 beta5 against former beta4? (8. Dec. 1999) 

added modules
- i.tape.slc (Olaf Hellwich)
- i.in.gtc (Olaf Hellwich)
- i.in.pri (Olaf Hellwich)
- r.out.arc (Markus Neteler)
- r.meta, g.meta, v.meta (Sue Huse?)
- r.sun (Jaro Hofierka)
- r.surf.fractal (Jo Wood)
- r.surf.gauss (Jo Wood)
- r.univar (Markus Neteler)
- s.reclass (Sue Huse) 
- v.plant (S. Cox)

source code:
- 64bit platform detection routine which changes (Luca Palmeri)
   LNG_SIZ from 4 to 8 in case of 64bit architecture
   (file src/mapdev/diglib/portable.h)
- improved prototyping etc. (Bill Hughes)

bugfixes:
- g.region (Luca Palmeri)
- d.colors (cursor movement) (Markus Neteler)
- d.sites (Markus Neteler)
- i.in.erdas (Angus Carr)
- i.oif (Markus Neteler)
- i.rectify (Luca Palmeri)
- i.rectify2 (Luca Palmeri)
- i.maxlik (Angus Carr)
- r.cats (Luca Palmeri)
- r.in.tiff (color table, warning on NULL) (Markus Neteler)
- r.in.gif (color table, warning on NULL)(Markus Neteler)
- r.in.hdf (3.x lib only)
- r.out.hdf (3.x lib only)
- r.answers (Markus Neteler)
- r.mapcalc (Luca Palmeri)
- r.mask (Luca Palmeri)
- r.statistics (Markus Neteler)
- s.surf.rst (Helena Mitasova)
- s.in.ascii (Markus Neteler)
- s.surf.idw (Job Spijker)
- r.resamp.rst (Helena Mitasova)
- v.surf.rst (Helena Mitasova)
- v.digit (Luca Palmeri)
- NVIZ2.2 (Pierre de Mouveaux)
- several code patches from Berhard Reiter for DUAlpha

- shade.clr.sh (Markus Neteler)
- shade.rel.sh (Markus Neteler)

- src/libes/gis/sites.c (Bill Brown): fixes memory problem
- src/libes/imagery/c_point.c (Angus Carr)
- src/libes/geom/optri (Markus Neteler)
- src/libes/g3d/*  (Jaro Hofierka)
- updated around 20 Gmakefiles for SUN/Solaris $(XDRLIB)
- all rst-libs under src/libes/rst/ now
- libimage (NVIZ) under src/libes/libimage/ now

updated man-pages for: (HTML-pages as well) Lisa Zygo 
d.3d                   r.le.dist              r.proj
d.histogram            r.le.null              r.rational.regression
d.leg.thin             r.le.patch             r.report
d.rast                 r.le.pixel             r.spreadpath
g.setproj              r.le.rename            r.stage3
m.in.stf1.db3          r.le.setup             r.stats
p.vrml                 r.le.trace             r.surf.fractal
r.cats                 r.null                 r.surf.gauss
r.circle               r.out.agnps            r.surf.random
r.cost                 r.out.arc              r.surf.xy
r.describe             r.out.ascii            r.tribs
r.in.ascii             r.out.mpeg             r.what
r.in.hdf               r.out.tiff
r.in.pbm               r.plane

Many thanks to all contributors! 

Best regards

 Markus Neteler

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