r.mapcalc question. Please help.

[Teresa Hansen]

On Thursday April 14th, tho following message was posted:

>Hello GRASS mapcalc gurus:  I have a problem .........
>I want to "patch" together buffered raster files using r.mapcalc.  
>I need to assign each of these files a different category value 
>and description.  Buffered files are automatically assigned just 
>two categories: 1 = actual location of area to be buffered and 2 
>= buffered area. 
>
> ..... stuff deleted ..... 
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I might accomplish this 
>in r.mapcalc....  
>
>Bonnie
>
>I do not subscribe to this group so please do not post solutions, but rather
>send comments to:

I for one am really interested in hearing the r.mapcalc solution to 
this question.  If a response was sent could it also be posted for us 
looky-loos.  Thanks!

Teresa