On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:01:14 +0200
Andreas Franz <andreas.franz@restaurierung.ch> wrote:
I have bought a copy of Grass as provided by openOSX.com. After a
long period of time the CDs (they have sent two and charged two)
arrived but after installing there is no application "Grass" on my
hardrive. I could see it being installed during installation but
disappeared right before installation was finished. None of the
provided files could be opened!
I contacted openOSX.com by email but never got any support nor even a
single reply to all my emails. Has that dubious company vanished from
the market or does anyone know how to get openOSX Grass running?
If these problems continue, perhaps we should remove mention of OpenOSX
from the GRASS website and more heavily promote Lorenzo Moretti's great
work[*] as the situation as it exists reflects badly on the GRASS
community. Their link to the GRASS website leads to a non-existant page
Baylor Univ.
& in response to the problems listed there:
1. The web browser bit is already done for 5.7's gui help system.
2. The xwininfo problem is solved in 5.7 by d.info.
3. easy to change
4. no action needed??
maybe Michael Barton has already fixed some of these issues
incidentally?
NVIZ is another story...
fwiw, we purchased the OpenOSX CD in 2002 or so when the book first came
out and had no problems with them back then.
Just to chime in, I purchased the OpenOSX cd a couple of years back (GRASS 5.0.0). It worked great for me then, and I was quite pleased with the promptness. However after recommending them to a friend earlier this year, I have changed my mind. My friend has not received her cd yet, 2 months later, and yet her credit card was of course charged. Emails go unanswered. Pretty lame. The grass packages made by Lorenzo Moretti are definitely the way to go, especially since they are of 5.3 and 5.7.
-ian
On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:47 PM, Hamish wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:01:14 +0200
Andreas Franz <andreas.franz@restaurierung.ch> wrote:
I have bought a copy of Grass as provided by openOSX.com. After a
long period of time the CDs (they have sent two and charged two)
arrived but after installing there is no application "Grass" on my
hardrive. I could see it being installed during installation but
disappeared right before installation was finished. None of the
provided files could be opened!
I contacted openOSX.com by email but never got any support nor even a
single reply to all my emails. Has that dubious company vanished from
the market or does anyone know how to get openOSX Grass running?
If these problems continue, perhaps we should remove mention of OpenOSX
from the GRASS website and more heavily promote Lorenzo Moretti's great
work[*] as the situation as it exists reflects badly on the GRASS
community. Their link to the GRASS website leads to a non-existant page
Baylor Univ.
& in response to the problems listed there:
1. The web browser bit is already done for 5.7's gui help system.
2. The xwininfo problem is solved in 5.7 by d.info.
3. easy to change
4. no action needed??
maybe Michael Barton has already fixed some of these issues
incidentally?
NVIZ is another story...
fwiw, we purchased the OpenOSX CD in 2002 or so when the book first came
out and had no problems with them back then.
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:01:14 +0200
Andreas Franz <andreas.franz@restaurierung.ch> wrote:
I have bought a copy of Grass as provided by openOSX.com. After a
long period of time the CDs (they have sent two and charged two)
arrived but after installing there is no application "Grass" on my
hardrive. I could see it being installed during installation but
disappeared right before installation was finished. None of the
provided files could be opened!
> I contacted openOSX.com by email but never got any support nor even a
single reply to all my emails. Has that dubious company vanished from
> the market or does anyone know how to get openOSX Grass running?
If these problems continue, perhaps we should remove mention of OpenOSX
from the GRASS website and more heavily promote Lorenzo Moretti's great
work[*] as the situation as it exists reflects badly on the GRASS
community. Their link to the GRASS website leads to a non-existant page
Baylor Univ.