[GRASS-user] troubles retaining color tables when upon export

hello -

I am working with a 1 band greyscale raster, FCELL. In GRASS, I have opened it and assigned it a specific color table. However, if I simulate sending this file to someone else (export it, then re-import it), the color table that existed upon export no longer exists. I have tried exporting the color table as a txt file in GRASS before the export, but that does not seem to do anything. I have exported/imported as both geotif and .img - both have the same issue. While the color table can be re-made, it is a complex classfication system that I would rather retain. Any ideas what I can look into? Might be that I am missing something, I am still recent to GRASS.

thanks!