[GRASS-dev] creating location from the command line

[William Kyngesburye]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> 1. Individual modules can write whatever they want under cell_misc.
> E.g. the fftreal and fftimag files written by i.fft are in host byte
> order.
>
Ugh, didn't know about that one (we took care of the stroke fonts and  
portable.h already).  This would make it impossible to work with the  
same fft map data on PPC and Intel OSX, or sharing fft map data  
between different platforms (most Mac users consider "OSX" the  
platform, not the "processor" type).

> 2. Even when portable formats are used, the precise choice of format
> may be platform-specific.
>
Maybe we need to specify that anything written must be in a portable  
format.  And provide some library functions (maybe already there?) for  
writing data in a portable way.

Another item for GRASS 7, I suppose...

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