<div>I had made a number of scripts that worked fine in the 6.4.0 build 6 but appear to have problems with the same code in later revisions: </div><div><br></div><div>The method used to take about 6-8 secs and produce about what you would expect on the screen. Now the same calculation takes 0 seconds the file is radically changed. See the before and after below.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Jim Mochel</div><div><br></div><div>r.mapcalc na_dem_sub_20 = na_dem_input - 20 </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+</div>
<div> | Layer:    na_dem                         Date: Sat Sep 24 17:37:59 2011    |</div><div> | Mapset:   PERMANENT                      Login of Creator: jmochel         |</div>
<div> | Location: wgs84                                                            |</div><div> | DataBase: /home/jmochel/grassdata                                          |</div><div> | Title:     ( na_dem )                                                      |</div>

<div> | Timestamp: none                                                            |</div><div> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|</div><div> |                                                                            |</div>

<div> |   Type of Map:  raster               Number of Categories: 65535           |</div><div> |   Data Type:    CELL                                                       |</div><div> |   Rows:         8384                                                       |</div>

<div> |   Columns:      9102                                                       |</div><div> |   Total Cells:  76311168                                                   |</div><div> |        Projection: x,y                                                     |</div>

<div> |            N:    4384500    S:   -3999500   Res:  1000                     |</div><div> |            E:    4639500    W:   -4462500   Res:  1000                     |</div><div> |   Range of data:    min = 0  max = 65535                                   |</div>

<div> |                                                                            |</div><div> |   Data Description:                                                        |</div><div> |    generated by r.in.gdal                                                  |</div>

<div> |                                                                            |</div><div> |   Comments:                                                                |</div><div> |    r.in.gdal input=&quot;/home/jmochel/gis/raw-data/hydo1k/na_dem.bil&quot; outpu\   |</div>

<div> |    t=&quot;na_dem&quot;                                                              |</div><div> |                                                                            |</div><div> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><a href="http://r.info" target="_blank">r.info</a> map=na_dem_sub_20                                                        </div><div> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+</div>
<div> | Layer:    na_dem_sub_20                  Date: Mon Sep 26 23:06:03 2011    |</div>
<div> | Mapset:   PERMANENT                      Login of Creator: jmochel         |</div><div> | Location: wgs84                                                            |</div><div> | DataBase: /home/jmochel/grassdata                                          |</div>

<div> | Title:     ( na_dem_sub_20 )                                               |</div><div> | Timestamp: none                                                            |</div><div> |----------------------------------------------------------------------------|</div>

<div> |                                                                            |</div><div> |   Type of Map:  raster               Number of Categories: 610             |</div><div> |   Data Type:    CELL                                                       |</div>

<div> |   Rows:         1                                                          |</div><div> |   Columns:      1                                                          |</div><div> |   Total Cells:  1                                                          |</div>

<div> |        Projection: x,y                                                     |</div><div> |            N:          1    S:          0   Res:     1                     |</div><div> |            E:          1    W:          0   Res:     1                     |</div>

<div> |   Range of data:    min = 610  max = 610                                   |</div><div> |                                                                            |</div><div> |   Data Description:                                                        |</div>

<div> |    generated by r.mapcalc                                                  |</div><div> |                                                                            |</div><div> |   Comments:                                                                |</div>

<div> |    na_dem_input@PERMANENT - 20                                             |</div><div> |                                                                            |</div><div> +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+</div>