[GRASSLIST:2273] Re: Where's the data?

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 05:11:27PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   When I look at the files in the mapset's cell/ directory, this is what I
> see:
> 
> [rshepard at salmo coeur]$ ls -l cell
> total 3472
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard   208407 Aug  4 16:31 buena_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard   191083 Aug  4 16:34 cornpeak_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  3 10:22 dem3
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  4 16:36 reservoir_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard  3141271 Aug  3 10:12 right_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  3 10:19 rye_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  4 16:46 starranch_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  4 17:28 temp2_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  3 10:48 temp_dem
> -rw-r--r--   1 rshepard rshepard        0 Aug  4 16:54 wildhorse_dem
> 
>   But, I can display those maps that have 0 bytes. Why? What's going on
> here?

Floating point maps live in fcell/<name>/.  The zero byte file is a
place holder for looking up raster names (such as when you are prompted
for a raster file).  Developers have discussed putting all rasters under
a reorganized "raster/" directory in the future (similarly, all vectors
would live under "vector/").

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>