[GRASS-dev] dealing with nan

[Hamish]

Hamish:
> > what method are you using to compress/decompress?
> > ..zip? .tar.gz? r.pack/r.unpack?

Yann Chemin wrote:
> Windows zip, ftp download across the World, then Linux
> unzip.
...
> > if r.pack I think it is safer to use the script in the
> > trac wish patches which converts GRASS <=6 raster dir layout to
> > proposed GRASS 7 $MAPSET/raster/$NAME/element) then tarball up
> > the map's dir, and vice versa.
> > I should probably update r.pack not to use r.{in|out}.mat as that
> > will lose some metadata for sure.
> 
> We will use r.[,un]pack that from now on.

I meant that r.pack as it is now may be lossy, and "r.convert" + "tar czf" may be a safer way:
  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/84

(feel free to try, but be warned)


Hamish