[GRASSweb-list]markus: web/announces 4.3release.info.html,1.7,1.8

Wed Sep 25 05:43:02 EDT 2002

Author: markus

Update of /grassrepository/web/announces
In directory doto:/tmp/cvs-serv7283

Modified Files:
	4.3release.info.html 
Log Message:
some cosmetics

Index: 4.3release.info.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /grassrepository/web/announces/4.3release.info.html,v
retrieving revision 1.7
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -d -r1.7 -r1.8

--- 4.3release.info.html	25 Sep 2002 09:38:26 -0000	1.7
+++ 4.3release.info.html	25 Sep 2002 09:43:00 -0000	1.8
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <html>
 <head>
-   <DEFANGED_meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+   <DEFANGED_meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <title>GRASS 4.3</title>
 </head>
 <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF">
@@ -45,13 +45,14 @@
 
 <p>
 <b>So you would reccommend to update to GRASS 5.0?</b><br>
-Yes, then you'll get support, even more fixed bugs, floating point raster, updated vector functionality, improved user interface 
+Yes, then you'll get support, even more fixed bugs, floating point raster, NULL support, new modules, updated vector functionality, improved user interface, support of 122 projections, ...
 <!-- More things to highlight or a ref to a detailed list? -->
 <p>
 
 <b>Are there any reasons at all to keep on using GRASS 4.3?</b><br>
 <!-- I don't have the complete overview, but this could at least be a starting point -->
-In some cases yes. Some modules have not yet been ported to grass 5.0 <!-- is there a detailed list somewhere? put in a pointer to it -->
+In some cases yes. Some modules have not yet been ported to grass 5.0
+<!-- is there a detailed list somewhere? put in a pointer to it -->
 As the user interface of some modules have changed and some modules have been combined or have changed names, scripts may break, anyhow the 
 overall improved functionality of GRASS 5.0 will probably make it worth the work to update scripts.
 <p>
@@ -59,12 +60,12 @@
 <b>Is it possible to have GRASS 4.3 and 5.x installed at the same work station</b><br>
 <!-- This is my impressions from reading the grass5 mailing list, please correct if neccesarry As I have not used GRASS 4 for quite a time, it
 might also be errors about installation directory and how to call it -->
-Yes and no. The standard installation of GRASS 5.x is under /usr/local/grass5, whereas grass 4.3 goes to /usr/local/grass4 (?) and the 
+Yes and no. The standard installation of GRASS 5.x is under /usr/local/grass5, whereas grass 4.3 goes to /usr/local/grass43 and the
 commands for staring them are grass5 and grass4, respectively <i>but</i> the data formats are 
 incompatible, <i>i. e.</i> GRASS 5 reads GRASS 4 files and updates them to GRASS 5 format after which GRASS 4 cannot read them anymore. 
 So, it is possible to:
 <ul>
-<li> Install GRASS 5 for testing without messing up an existing GRASS 4 installation. Just be sure to be using copies of the GRASS 4 workspaces for testing.
+<li> Install GRASS 5 for testing without messing up an existing GRASS 4 installation. Just be sure to be using copies of the GRASS 4 workspaces (locations) for testing.
 <li> Use GRASS 4 and 5 as two separate producion lines on the same work station
 <li> Use some functionality in GRASS 4 for first stage processing and then import the coverage into GRASS 5 for the next stages
 </ul>
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@
 <center>
 <font face="Arial, Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><font size=-2>
 <a href="../index2.html">
-<DEFANGED_IMG SRC="../images/gbanner_small.jpg" BORDER=0></a>
+<DEFANGED_IMG SRC="../images/gbanner_small.jpg" BORDER=0></a>
 <br>
 
 Send your GRASS related <a href="mailto:weblist at grass.itc.it">email</a>



