Howdy,
I have just downloaded the GRASS sun binaries from moon.cerer.army.mil .
I have a problems which I hope someone will be able to help me with.xgrass4.1 comes up fine when I start it. When I try to set a display
( "d.mon start=x0" )I can't. I get a message about problem selecting x0,
look at the monitorcap file. The installation guide says I should have named
pipes created by GISGEN. But since I just down loaded the binary
I don't have GISGEN. Nor do I have any of the other stuff in the source
directory.
Could some kind soul please help me out. Either tell me that is
I should RTFM on page ... the answere is clear. Or email me GISGEN and
other files I might need to solve this problem, or maybe even a
clue on what I should do.
Sounds like you need to do the following (from GISGEN.sh)
# create fifo files for graphics drivers
for i in a b
do
fifo=0
while test $fifo -lt 21
do
if test ! -f $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
then
/etc/mknod $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i p
chmod 0666 $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i
echo $GISBASE/dev/fifo.$fifo$i created
fi
fifo=`expr $fifo + 1`
done
done
as specified under src/CMD/generic/GISGEN.sh which you apparently do not have.
Be sure to obtain a copy of the installation manual which describes this
and other interesting nuances. If my memory serves me well (a rare event
these days), it is at the ftp site under
/grass/grass4.1/releaseInfo/betaRelease.notes
or some such thing. This will explain the relationship between the fifos
(some day I'll give this name to a dog) and the monitorcap file.
greg
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Thanx
Patrick Jones
plj@mitre.org