[Gdal-dev] Surfer binary grids support

[Ionut Iordache]

Greetings,
I'm trying to use GDAL under Solaris 8 to convert Surfer 8 binary grids 
(or even ASCII) to ArcInfo floating point grids (.hdr and .flt files).
I don't know whether the Surfer 7 format (GS7BG, advertised as supported 
for reading in GDAL) is the same as what Surfer 8 outputs, but I wanted 
give it a shot.
My problem is that I can't find support for any of the Surfer grids 
formats in the downloaded version of the GDAL 1.4.1.0 source code.
The directory "gdal/frmts/gsg" is simply missing from the source tree 
and after compiling and installing from source, "--formats" doesn't list 
any Surfer formats as being supported.

So, my question is two-fold:
- what version of the GDAL source code I need to download in order to 
get the Surfer driver code, and
- does anyone know if my Surfer 8 binary grids would be readable by the 
GS7BG driver ?


Thanks much,
    Ionut Iordache

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