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>5. How to Acquire GRASS</A
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> GRASS used to be available on tape from various companies that signed
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distribution agreements with USA/CERL. These companies usually
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supported specific platform environments, such as Masscomp, Sun, DEC,
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Hewlett Packard, IBM (risc), PC (running some flavor of UNIX), and
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Macintosh (running AUX). Until recently, the flavors of UNIX working on
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PCs generally were too low-end, or required too much added programming
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support (e.g. programming drivers for high-end graphics boards like the
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Number Nine boards of several years back) to be stable or complete.
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However, with robust systems like Linux, this problem is history.
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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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>Baylor University</I
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> As of the date of this version of the mini-HOWTO,
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Baylor has source code for GRASS 4.1 and 4.2, as well as Sun Solaris
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compiled binaries. Blackland GRASS for Windows 95/NT is linked to
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from this site. Baylor is considering its own Linux and Windows NT
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binaries, as well. You should be able to compile the Baylor
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source code under Linux yourself, using information in this mini-HOWTO.
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>The traditional site</I
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at
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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
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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
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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
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source code from USA/CERL, as well as GRASS4.2 source code from Baylor
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University. (See section 6 before installing GRASS!)
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> Linux distribution developers! Might you be interested in including
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GRASS with your distribution? Remember, GRASS source code is in the
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completely unrestricted, copyright-free, public domain. Your
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distribution might be more valuable if it contained source code and/or
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compiled binaries for GRASS.
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