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All the source code, support data, PDF
and HTML versions of all documentation (including UNIX manual pages) can be obtained by anonymous
ftp from several mirror sites. We also maintain a GMT page on the World Wide Web (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu);
see this page for installation directions
which allow for a simplified, automatic install procedure
(for CD-D and DVD-R solutions, see http://www.geoware-online.com.)
The GMT compressed tar archives requires bzip2 to expand. If this utility
is not installed on your system, you must obtained it by your system's package manager
or install it separatelyD.1.
The GMT archives are as follows:
- GMT_src.tar.bz2
- Contains all GMT source code needed for compilation.
- GMT_share.tar.bz2
- Contains support files needed at run-time (cpt files, symbols and PostScript patterns).
- GSHHS_coast.tar.bz2
- Contains the intermediate,
low, and crude resolutions of the GSHHS coastline database. Required
with GMT_src.tar and GMT_share.tar for minimal setup needed to run GMT.
- GMT_doc.tar.bz2
- Contains HTML and PDF versions all GMT documentation
(man pages, Cookbook and Technical Reference, and the tutorial), the data files
used in the tutorial, and all the shell scripts
and support data used in the Cookbook section.
- GMT_triangle.tar.bz2
- Contains the optional triangulation routine of Shewchuk.
- GMT_suppl.tar.bz2
- Contains several programs
written by us and GMT users elsewhere. (See Appendix A for more
details).
- GSHHS_full.tar.bz2
- Contains the optional GSHHS
full-resolution coastline database.
- GSHHS_high.tar.bz2
- Contains the optional GSHHS
high-resolution coastline database.
The netCDF library that makes up the backbone of the grid file
i/o operations can be obtained from Unidata by downloading he file
netcdf.tar.Z from the anonymous FTP directory of
unidata.ucar.edu.
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Paul Wessel
2009-07-13