[GRASS5] Tcltkgrass - r.in.bin interface needs updating

Markus Neteler neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de
Tue Mar 6 05:10:46 EST 2001


On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:09:00AM +1000, Mike Thomas wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Using the 26 February snapshot I noticed two problems in the interface to
> r.in.bin.
> 
> 1. There is no way of setting the -b (byte swapping) and -h (header)
> switches.  The -b switch is essential on Intel platforms to importing
> GTOPO30 DEMs.
Added.

> 2. The title field passes titles with spaces through to r.in.bin so that,
> for example, "Eastern Australia" causes r.in.bin to complain about
> "Australia" not being a valid command line switch.
Mhhh, this seems to be a more general problem. Can we encapsulate the
string somehow?

> As these are probably symptomatic of more widespread issues I am leaving
> them to the maintainer of Tclktkgrass.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
Thanks for notification,

 Markus

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