[GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:2714] Re: Grass 5.3-5.7 OS X bin ready. Install ... (fwd)

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I'll forward this one to the developers mailing list as well. Already I
have fixed some of the problems. Mostly they seem to be just
multiply-defined symbols. It is tedious work to fix them though and there
is always a chance I could miss the original authors' intentions regarding
static/global variables and end up breaking something.

While fixing g.help I noticed some comments in the source code refer to the
Fort Hood Information System. I think this was GRASS's name before
GRASS...this code must go back to the very early 1980s. Interesting to see
something so old: :slight_smile:

/*=====================================================================
| This package of menu routines was developed according to the
| protocal designed and specified by Van Warren for the Fort Hood
| Information System. The implementation was catered and prepared
| by James Bozek. Thus, to a notoriously well-nourished system
| such as VAX/UNIX is brought yet another exquisit co-authored
| culinary delicacy.
|
|====================================================================

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:24:05 +0100
From: Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti@bologna.enea.it>
To: Paul Kelly <paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:2714] Re: Grass 5.3-5.7 OS X bin ready. Install ...
     (fwd)

I put the file
Errors_Grass53_2004_02_21_shared_lib.txt
in Grass for MAC OS X site
http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/

It's complete with all error

Cheers

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I actually got an email from Van Warren some time ago and posted his recolection
of how GRASS was started as a Fort Hood Information System on the GRASS web site (under history) -
http://grass.itc.it/vanwarren.html
  I have scanned few pages of the original report and posted it there too -
there is a link to it (or go directly to http://grass.itc.it/fhgis83rep.html)
You will see that a lot of concepts that are still in GRASS (including the "location")
were in the original version (it also helps to understand why it was designed like that)
so it is not surprising that it is possible to find some original code there.

Helena

While fixing g.help I noticed some comments in the source code refer to the
Fort Hood Information System. I think this was GRASS's name before
GRASS...this code must go back to the very early 1980s. Interesting to see
something so old: :slight_smile:

/*=====================================================================
| This package of menu routines was developed according to the
| protocal designed and specified by Van Warren for the Fort Hood
| Information System. The implementation was catered and prepared
| by James Bozek. Thus, to a notoriously well-nourished system
| such as VAX/UNIX is brought yet another exquisit co-authored
| culinary delicacy.
|
|====================================================================

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:24:05 +0100
From: Lorenzo Moretti <lorenzo.moretti@bologna.enea.it>
To: Paul Kelly <paul-grass@stjohnspoint.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [GRASSLIST:2714] Re: Grass 5.3-5.7 OS X bin ready. Install ...
     (fwd)

I put the file
Errors_Grass53_2004_02_21_shared_lib.txt
in Grass for MAC OS X site
http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/

It's complete with all error

Cheers