v.in.arc

[David Stigberg]

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> 
>    I hope someone can help me with a v.in.arc problem.
> We used it successfully a few weeks ago on a mainframe
> (VAX/Ultrix) and it worked like a charm.  Now Grass is
> installed on SUN workstations (it's no longer on the VAX)
> and we can't get v.in.arc to work as expected.
> 
>    We have an ASCII file in ARC/INFO UNGENERATE format in
> the arc subdirectory of the mapset we are using, and Grass
> recognizes the existence of the file, so that must be OK.
> But Grass is asking for a binary vector file, rather than
> ASCII.                    ^^^^^^
> 
>    Am I missing something?  Thanks for any hints anyone
> can offer.
>                             Mary Daum
>                             Brookhaven National Lab
>                             daum at bnlux1.bnl.gov
> 
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When you run the interactive version of v.in.arc, the first prompt that
is displayed is for the OUTPUT (binary) vector file name.  This, obviously,
would be more intuitive if it came later in the series of prompts.

-- 
David Stigberg
US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab
Spatial Analysis & Systems Team
217-352-6511 x631
stigberg at zorro.cecer.army.mil