ANNOUNCE: GRASS 5 beta 6 released

[Markus Neteler]

Dear GRASS community,

today we have released GRASS 5 beta 6. This will be the
last pre-release before GRASS 5 "stable".

Checking this page:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/grass5/list5_of_modules.txt

you get an impression about current stability - it is
quite good comparing to former versions. If this list
is not right, please send a note.

What's new in GRASS 5 beta6 against beta5? (16. Feb. 2000) 

- added missing MAN pages (Markus Neteler)

- d.area: fixed. Now dynamic allocation to remove the 4096 vector
    line limit (Bill Hughes)
- d.legend: fixed bug on shifted numbers. Optional flag to suppress
            display of "no data" now (Markus Neteler)

- i.in.erdas: "-m" reads in map coordinate info (reference) now (Angus Carr)
- i.out.erdas added (Angus Carr)

- m.in.e00: manages correctly the info table with aliases now,
            added a flag for choosing to link geometry and attributes 
            on feature-# or feature-ID, e000b2a integrated (Michel Wurtz)

- nviz code: update prototyping and 'return' fixing (Bill Hughes)

- r.coin fixed (hopefully) (Markus Neteler)

- again general sites import bug (in beta6a-d) fixed
- s.in.ascii fixed for x y z datasets (like DEM) (Markus Neteler)
- s.out.e00 added (Michel Wurtz)
- s.surf.idw import routine updated (Job Spijker, Markus Neteler)
- s.probplt: bugfix on sites read (Job Spijker)
- s.sample fix (Markus Neteler)

- v.bubble: added (Job Spijker)
- v.db.rim, s.db.rim: should compile now
- v.in.arc should be fixed (Werner Droege, Alex Shevlakov)
- v.in.dxf2 added (Ben Johnson)
- v.report: fixed km conversion factor (Markus Neteler)

Shells:
- d.monsize: script to (re-)set GRASS monitor size (Anantha Prasad)
- d.rast.leg2 added (display raster map with legend)
- i.tasscap.tm5: updated for GRASS 5 (Markus Neteler)
- r.reclass.area: updated for GRASS 5 (Markus Neteler)
- slide.show.sh: addec parameter "prefix" to display only selected
                 files (Markus Neteler)

Source code structure:
- New source code tree: src.nonGPL/ (modules not shipped with GPL)
- all libraries under src/libes/ now (Markus Neteler)
- final upates for prototypes, along with several 'return 0;'
   (Bill Hughes)
- updated/checked all Gmakefiles on "mv" command for WIN/Cygnus
   (John Huddleston)
- added HUGE, drand48, srand48 for WIN/Cygnus (John Huddleston)

- configure:
  automatically choosing the diglib64 library at compile-time for 
  64-bit machines (Bill Hughes)

src.related
- rim: should compile now

Many thanks to all contributors!


Where to download:

 http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
  -> GRASS 5 section

 http://grass.baylor.edu/
  -> GRASS 5 section

Source code and Linux binaries are available now, Solaris
binaries fill follow the next days. We *need* someone to
compile it on SGI. If you can help here, please write to
<neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de>

You will have noticed the new web structure, we hope
you like it and all information are accessible (again).
Comments are welcome of course.

Kind regards

 Markus Neteler
 GRASS 5 coordinator