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> GRASS used to be available on tape from various companies that signed
distribution agreements with USA/CERL. These companies usually
supported specific platform environments, such as Masscomp, Sun, DEC,
Hewlett Packard, IBM (risc), PC (running some flavor of UNIX), and
Macintosh (running AUX). Until recently, the flavors of UNIX working on
PCs generally were too low-end, or required too much added programming
support (e.g. programming drivers for high-end graphics boards like the
Number Nine boards of several years back) to be stable or complete.
However, with robust systems like Linux, this problem is history.
Similarly, few people acquire GRASS on tape, though a few do on CD-ROM.
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> The main way to acquire GRASS is to get it via anonymous ftp from:
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>The new site at
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> As of the date of this version of the mini-HOWTO,
Baylor has source code for GRASS 4.1 and 4.2, as well as Sun Solaris
compiled binaries. Blackland GRASS for Windows 95/NT is linked to
from this site. Baylor is considering its own Linux and Windows NT
binaries, as well. You should be able to compile the Baylor
source code under Linux yourself, using information in this mini-HOWTO.
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or from mirrors cited at USA/CERL's website:
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> The ftp location is:
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> moon.cecer.army.mil
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> Appendix A describes how to acquire and install GRASS4.13 compiled
binaries from USA/CERL. (See section 6 before installing GRASS!)
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> Appendix B describes how to acquire and install GRASS4.15 compiled
binaries from USA/CERL. (See section 6 before installing GRASS!)
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> Appendix C describes how to acquire and compile GRASS4.14 and GRASS4.15
source code from USA/CERL, as well as GRASS4.2 source code from Baylor
University. (See section 6 before installing GRASS!)
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> Linux distribution developers! Might you be interested in including
GRASS with your distribution? Remember, GRASS source code is in the
completely unrestricted, copyright-free, public domain. Your
distribution might be more valuable if it contained source code and/or
compiled binaries for GRASS.
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