re: GRASS FTP site

GRASS GRASS user
1

Hi!
  I cannot reproduce the FTP error some of you are describing using any of
our local machines, even PC's. Thus I would like to request the following
information from anyone experiencing FTP problems.

  1) Brand name and model of machine the fault occured on.
  2) Brand name of the OS on that machine. (ie SCO, EP/IX, etc)
  3) Version number of that OS you are using.
  4) Whether problems persist when you disable the advanced
      features of our FTP. (ie send "-" as the first char of
      your password)

Maybe I can find a common thread among your responses.

Thank you,

Russ Northrup
Systems Admin, US Army CERL

2

I confirm the troubles others have had too. Your **new** <MOON> didn't
recognice the "ls -l" command but "ls" did work normally...
That isn't the problem of our servers or OS etc.
The **old** <MOON> and the **older** <AMBER> worked very well!
---
BTW, we are working under UTek-V on TEK-88/34 and got the GRASS from <AMBER>.

F. Hoffmann, TU Dresden, Germany

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From: courtney@agcrr.bio.ns.ca (Bob Courtney)
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Subject: re: r.in.sunrast AGAIN
Cc: courtney@agcrr.bio.ns.ca

Helpful suggestions for the fix to r.in.sunrast have been offered
by :

Jim Hinthorne,
Director GIS Lab
Central Wash. Univ.

He pointed out that :

Two more changes are needed to make this program bullit-pruff.

1. The parameter passed to G_malloc should be ncol_fix, not ncols,
because this is the size of the record to read later.

2. Before the final "return 1;" there should be "free (raster);" so
that the space allocated by G_malloc will be freed up. Some systems
are good about doing this automatically when the program exits, but
some aren't so friendly and the programmer should take responsibility
for freeing allocated memory.

So, the new fix to r.in.sunrast would be :

...........................................................

cd src.alpha/raster/r.in.sunrast/cmd

and edit main.c

replace the function rasttocell with :

rasttocell (rast_fd, cell_fd, nrows, ncols)
{
    unsigned char *raster;
    CELL *cell;
    int row, col, ncol_fix ;

    /* check if row is even or odd */
    ncol_fix = ncols;
    if ( ncols % 2 )
           ncol_fix += 1 ;

    cell = G_allocate_cell_buf();

    /* JH fix 1 */
    raster = (unsigned char *) G_malloc(ncol_fix);

    if (verbose)
        fprintf (stderr, "complete ... ");
    for (row = 0; row < nrows; row++)
    {
        if (verbose)
            G_percent (row, nrows, 2);
        if (read (rast_fd, raster, ncol_fix) != ncol_fix)
            return -1;
        for (col = 0; col < ncols; col++)
            cell[col] = (CELL) raster[col];
        if (G_put_map_row (cell_fd, cell) < 0)
            exit(1);
    }

    if (verbose)
        G_percent (row, nrows, 2);

    /* JH Fix 2 */
    free (raster);
    return 1;
}

and recompile

...........................................................

Thanks, Jim

Bob Courtney
Atlantic Geoscience Centre