Strata: Download the Code, Manual, and Tutorial
Strata 2.14 was released December '97.
Building Strata
Please see the
"Downloading Strata" appendix of the Strata User Manual on what
to do after you've downloaded the source code. If you have Strata 2.12
or older, please be aware that the packaging
method has changed significantly and you will need to read these
instructions. Strata 2.12 cannot be patched to a later version;
you must download the source in its entirety.
Changes in Strata
Please see the "User-Visible
Changes" appendix of the Strata User Manual if you want to know
what what's different in this release (other than the better packaging).
Strata is written in C with X Windows graphics (using the X Toolkit and
the Athena Widget set, both of which are part of the standard X distribution),
development being with X11R5.
Strata has been successfully used on some DEC MIPS Ultrix, HP/UX v9,
SGI, AIX, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, and SunOS systems; the latter two
platforms probably offer the most stability, being the main
development environments. It ought to work in UNIX and UNIX-like
systems in general. Strata is not available for other systems
(e.g. MS Windows, Macintosh).
Note that most PCs can be made to have a UNIXish environment, sufficient
to run Strata, with NetBSD or
with Linux (for instance, Redhat Linux).
Installation packages of these will usually come with X Windows, which
is needed for Strata's graphics. However, we lack the expertise to help if you
have questions about Linux or NetBSD.
Questions and comments about Strata should be sent to
strata-admin@geosc.psu.edu.