[GRASSLIST:1797] Re: r.out.bin availability & related question

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:50:15PM -0400, Thomas Adams wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> I'm using a Linux version 5.x of GRASS from about 6 months to a year ago
> and wish to use r.out.bin, but my distribution does not have it. Does
> the current release have r.out.bin?
Hi Thomas,

yes, since beta10 it is included (beta9 was only alive for 24h due to a
severe install bug). 

> Related question: I wish to write a shell script to process multiple
> sites files and conceptually do the following:
> 
>         s.ascii.in $filename.txt | s.surf.rst <arguments> | r.out.bin $filename.bin
> 
> Provided r.out.bin is available, I should be able to do this, should'nt I?
Well, I don't think that you could pipe the results from s.surf.rst.
But in a simple script using these commands sequentially, it is no
problem.

Regards

 Markus Neteler