header files

[Brad Robbins (BIO)]

It has been pointed out that I've had a "slip of the finger" so to speak 
when I stated the size of my file.  I said the file was 125124 mb.  What 
I meant was 125124 _bytes_.  



Brad Robbins						Dept. of Biology
brobbins at chuma.cas.usf.edu				Univ. of South Florida


On Tue, 23 Aug 1994, Brad Robbins (BIO) wrote:

> I have a small data set that I want to manipulate in GRASS.  The problem 
> is the header file.  Creation of this file requires that I specify the 
> number of rows, columns, and bytes per cell.  As you know the product of 
> these 3 values must equal the file size.  My file is 125124 mb.  I have 
> 400 columns and 107 rows.  Dividing the file's size by the product of 
> columns and rows indicates I have 2.9 bytes per cell.  This isn't 
> acceptable of course.  I believe my problem lies in the presentation of 
> the data.  I used a spreadsheet (Microsoft's Excel) to enter the data and 
> saved it as a text file.  This program is limited to 256 columns so I 
> wrapped the columns down to the next line, starting a new line at each 
> new row.  Is this my problem?  If so does anyone have a suggestion as to 
> how I might create a text file without this problem?  Your help is 
> appreciated.
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> Brad Robbins						Dept. of Biology
> brobbins at chuma.cas.usf.edu				Univ. of South Florida
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