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# D.1 Source distribution

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 the purchase of CD-R and DVD-R media, 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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