[GRASSLIST:5988] Re: moving layers from one machine to another

[Roger Bivand]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote:

> Having painstakingly imported a large shapefile into Linux (see
> previous thread on v.in.ogr), I want to use this layer on my OS X
> machine. However, simply moving my ~/grass directory to the other
> machine seems not to work, as attempting lo load the layer results in
> a bus error on the Mac (works fine on the Linux machine). What is the
> best way to move layers among GRASS workstations?

If your Linux system was on Intel/AMD, I think you'll find that it is 
other-endian from your Mac - the bytes in integers, floats and doubles are 
stored in different orders. I understand that GRASS rasters are protected 
by being stored using the portable XDR representation, are GRASS vector 
layers?

> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 

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