## DESCRIPTION

r.pack collects raster map elements and support files and compressed them using gzip algorithm for copying. The resulting packed file can be afterwards unpacked within a GRASS GIS session by r.unpack. Since the selected raster map is not exported but natively stored, the current region is not respected. Hence r.pack stores the entire raster map.

## NOTES

By default, the name of the pack file is determined from the input parameter. Optionally a different name can be given by output parameter. Currently only 2D raster maps are supported.

## EXAMPLE

Pack up the entire raster map aspect into aspect.pack file:

    r.pack input=aspect

The packed raster map file aspect.pack can afterwards be unpacked by

    r.unpack input=aspect.pack

## SEE ALSO

r.unpack, r.in.gdal, g.copy, r.proj, v.unpack

## AUTHORS

Original Bash script written by Hamish Bowman, Otago University, New Zealand
Converted to Python and updated for GRASS 7 by Martin Landa, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic