importing sun rasterfiles

[Simon Cox]

I just tried to use r.in.sunrast and it complained

" - this rasterfile format not supported"

My files are

"      rasterfile, 3074x1938x8 run-length byte encoded image"

Is it the run length encoding which is the problem?
If so, is there any way to convert this *without* going
all the way to ascii (I think my machine might get indegestion!)

I'm using grass4.0.

Thanks

Simon Cox

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