[GRASSLIST:10751] Re: Problems exporting raster using r.out.arc or r.out.gdal

[Hamish]

> I have a small raster data set (~400 rows and 350 columns stored in  
> CELL format) that I'm trying to export to an external raster format.   
> Ideally, I'd like to get the it into an Arc GRID format to compare it  
> to the original data, but r.out.arc has been creating files that are  
> absurdly large (5 GB and counting when I quit the process).  Should I  
> not be using r.out.arc?  Could part of my problem be that the data is  
> CELL formatted not FCELL or DCELL (the original data is in integer  
> format)?

Use r.out.asc
Make sure your region is set to the bounds of the export map first:
 g.region rast=your_map
 g.region -p
CELL is fine.

64-bit machine?



Hamish