[GRASSLIST:9466] Re: Rasters not displaying from old (Windows) Gr ass Projects

[Chris George]

Dear Eric,

Since your rasters work in 5.3 there clearly isn't a problem with DOS 
format files: my guess was wrong.  (Incidentally, zip/unzip are 
different from gzip/gunzip.  They are available in Ubuntu.)

I would avoid using GRASS 6.1.cvs unless it is important to you to have 
some feature not available in a stable release.  I am amazed how many 
GRASS users seem to use the development version which is much more 
likely to contain bugs.  Can you manage with 6.0.1?

Chris

PS If you want to send me a tar or zip file of some of your maps I can 
check they load with 6.0.1.

Patton, Eric wrote:
>>Just a guess, but rasters may need converting from DOS format (CR+LF at
>>ends of lines)  to Unix (LF only).  Try using -a as a parameter to unzip
>>in Linux, or running dos2unix on the raster files.
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>>Chris
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> Chris, I tried the -a switch on gunzip, but that isn't supported on Ubuntu. 
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> Glynn, the filesizes look fine - all rasters are several MB (normal sized).
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> Do I run dos2unix on every single file in every directory in my location? Or
> could I tar the whole location and run that tarfile through dos2unix? I
> tried that for fun, but I get an'Error exit delayed from previous errors'
> when dos2unix runs on my tarfile. Does it make sense to run a dos -> unix
> ascii convertor on Grass rasters? Aren't they in binary format?
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> Here's another clue - When to display any raster, I get the following error
> message:
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> GRASS 6.1.cvs (Canso):~/Projects/Canso/PERMANENT > Monitor <x0>: Premature
> EOF
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> I thought maybe I would try to tar the location, ftp it to another Linux
> workstation running Grass 5.3, and see if I could display the rasters there.
> All rasters display fine. So I have the situation where:
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> Cygwin Grass 6.1cvs ---> Ubuntu Grass 6.1cvs = rasters broken, vectors OK
> Cygwin Grass 6.1cvs ---> Red Hat Grass 5.3 = rasters OK, 6.1 vectors don't
> display on 5.3 (which is normal)
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> I really need a way of getting all my Cygwin work running OK on Ubuntu,
> because I've passed the point of no return in terms of getting this data
> worked up do this level - I definitely can't 
> do it all over again.
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> ~ Eric.
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