On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, David Hine wrote:
Jeremy
The Tcl/Tk interface is available now from:
http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
...
I use a setup very much like David Hines, only I use S.u.S.E. Linux
(http://www.suse.com) instead of Red Hat and I use GRASS-XMI
(http://www.gpz.com) instead of TCL/TK Grass. I run this on a dual
Pentium Pro 200 with 256 mb RAM, 10 gb disk, a Number Nine Imagine 128
card, and a ViewSonic 20 monitor. It works real well.
David recommended using a virtual desktop, like fvwm2 or kde. I also
recommend this. I really prefer switching from one screen to another
instead of minimizing your windows all the time like one does in legacy
operating systems.
Dave Mandel
P.S. Anyone tryed using the Enlightenment window manager with GRASS
or other GIS applications. I haven't yet, but I mean to. Enlightenment
provides an eterm (their xterm) which can be transparent. This would
allow you to see your GRASS commands in the foreground and your map
display in the background which might be kind of cool.
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Hi all,
Has anyone successfully run LTPLUS on Linux?
I installed the software on my Linux Machine
but am getting a core dump when I choose to create map.
BTW LTPLUS is a raster-to-vector conversion tool that
is available at http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
I need some help to get LTPLUS running and your
suggestions are most welcome.
Thanks in advance
Venkatesh Raghavan
Osaka City University
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone successfully run LTPLUS on Linux?
I installed the software on my Linux Machine
but am getting a core dump when I choose to create map.
BTW LTPLUS is a raster-to-vector conversion tool that
is available at http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
LTPlus is a pretty neat program which had great potential.
Altho it is dated, it is still one of the most efficient raster2vector
systems around; and certainly the best map oriented one.
I understand that the version distributed with GRASS has
been ported to Linux. Unfortunately, this version is somewhat
broken.
John Dabritz wrote and maintained LTPlus as a US Forest Service
employee. When USFS dropped support for LTPlus in or around 1992/93, John
and his colaborators had completed version 2.36. This was the last
Open Source version of LTPlus; and altho it only ran on SCO Unix it was
much better than the one distributed with GRASS. (Note: All of
John's LTPlus versions, including LTPlus 2.36 use SVGA graphics
which give his LTPlus software better preformance than versions
running under X-Windows.)
In 1995/96 Dan Haskell ported version 2.36 to Linux, and was selling it
for about $100.00 as proprietary software. It was an excellent product
which used the Linux SVGA library to get the best preformance of any
LTPlus product I have ever seen. I don't know what the status of his
product is; but I will check when I see him. Maybe I can convince him
to Open Source it, but I'm not making any promises.
Sincerely,
David Mandel
Chief Activist
Portland Linux Users Group
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