<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial;}</style></head><body><br><br>using FWtools command shell, attempting to convert mif/mid files, point geometry, WGS84 DD coordinate system to shapefile format.<br><br>using this comad string,<br><span id="ctl00_cphMain_BodyContent"><code>ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" <br>mydata.shp mydata.mif<br><br>I get this error msg<br></code></span>error 6: data keyword not found in mydata.mif file may be corrupt.<br><br>failure:<br>unable to open data source with the following drivers.<br>(list of drivers)<br><br>here's the mif headder,<br>Version 3<br>Delimiter ","<br>INDEX 3<br>Coordsys Earth Projection 1,104<br>Columns 14<br> Lon Decimal (11,6)<br> Lat Decimal (10,6)<br> Dep Decimal(7,1)<br> Src_ID CHAR(8)<br> Snd_datum CHAR(5)<br> HYSAS_Src_ID CHAR(7)<br> Eval Smallint<br> Class CHAR(1)<br> Adj CHAR(1)<br> Surv CHAR(1)<br> Trk CHAR(1)<br> WG84 CHAR(1)<br> Updated DATE<br> Point_Type CHAR(1)<br> Data<br> Point -113.793621 20.506910<br> SYMBOL (49,16711680,6)<br><br>these mif/mid are the output of another conversion program<br><br>any help appreciated<br><br><br></body></html>