"rotating" raster maps

[Rick Thompson]

> I am importing some ascii files as rasters which need to be transformed
> so that the rows become columns and columns become rows.  I have examined
> m.rot90 but this seems to work only with generic ascii files and not
> GRASS raster maps.

First, uncompress the grass raster file with r.compress -u. Specify the number
of bytes per cell (found in the cellhd for the file). If the format is 0, then
it is 1 byte per cell (nbytes is format + 1). The input file must be placed in 
a different mapset out of the present search path, and a new cellhd file needs
to be made which reflects the altered rows and columns (Don't forget to change
the region, too, to reflect the changes in rows/cols).  Finally, mv the colr, 
cell_misc, and cats files to the new file name. Both m.flip and m.rot90 work
this way. Compress the files when completed.

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