[GRASS-user] r.out.arc: small issue

[Jarek Jasiewicz]

Hamish wrote:
> Jarek Jasiewicz wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>> I just lost few hours importing data from grass to Arc
>> for som resons I must it transver as Arc ASCII Grid
>> Generally the reason of problems was that grass output ASCII grid as
>> LF, but Arc (and some other applications) Requiers CL RF (linux -
>> windows problem)
>> generally unix2dos utility solve that problem after r.out.arc
>>     
>
>
> I think r.out.arc has been around since the days when Arc/Info commonly
> ran on UNIX, and I've never had that problem with the module's output,
> so I suspect this is a new bug in Arc. Which version of Arc has the
> error? We can add the hint to the help page.
>
> Besides unix2dos, you can work around the problem with this patch:
>
> Index: raster/r.out.arc/main.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/grass/grassrepository/grass6/raster/r.out.arc/main.c,v
> retrieving revision 2.8
> diff -u -r2.8 main.c
> --- raster/r.out.arc/main.c     28 Oct 2006 20:33:33 -0000      2.8
> +++ raster/r.out.arc/main.c     5 Jun 2007 04:17:35 -0000
> @@ -196,11 +196,11 @@
>          if(!flag.singleline->answer)          
>           fprintf (fp, " ");
>          else
> -          fprintf (fp,"\n");
> +          fprintf (fp,"\r\n");
>          }
>  
>         if(!flag.singleline->answer)
> -          fprintf (fp,"\n");
> +          fprintf (fp,"\r\n");
>  
>         /*
>          for (col = 0; col < ncols; col++)
>
>
>
>
> Hamish
>   
Thanks
It concern ArcView 9.0  with SP2 with TauDEM installed (ie probably 
TauDEM has problem with reading that grid) also problem has TAS GIS - 
ASCII Arc is the only way to import data from GRASS (inspite it has more 
import option)

Jarek