change 4-bytes-per-cell to 1-byte-per-cell?

[Angus Carr]

Try r.mapcalc "new = old"
That should work. You will have to play with the colors a bit, but it will
work.

Angus.

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Bill Hargrove wrote:

> 
> If I have a 4-bytes-per-cell GRASS raster map that now only contains values
> less than 255, is there some GRASS tool that will change it to be only
> 1-byte-per-cell to save disk space?
> 
> r.resample does not appear to do it, and I don't believe that r.compress or
> r.mapcalc will figure this out either.
> 
> I'd appreciate it if someone had advice about this ...
> 
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