[GRASSLIST:1525] DOQQ UTM to SPCS from tiff+tfw files

[mberglund]

Hello all,
I am a newbie, but have looked long and hard for a direct answer to what
seems to be a simple problem.

I would like to take a series of doqq's which are in tiff/tfw file and UTM
projection and:
	1: import them into grass
	2: reproject the doqq to SPCS from UTM
	3: overlay a shape file of a grid system(in SPCS)
	4: divide each portion of the doqq according to the grid
	5: export each chunk into the same tiff/tfw combination

Basically, I want to create chucks along section lines of the doqq.

I started to just try and import the 128M and my machine (PII/300
96M/Ram) ran for days (3) and ended up locking up, this was on grass5.x

I am wondering if there is a memory issue with a file of this size. I
noticed that as time grew on ram and swap were both growing boundlessly,
but I was asleep when the final crash occured.

In any event, am I going to need weeks and huge machines to do this?
And is there a simplified run down of how this can be accomplished(most
directly).

Thanks,
Matt Berglund

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