reading in a SPOT image

[Wang Song]

> I'm having problems reading a (panchromatic) spot image into grass.
> Here is what I did: I created a x,y coordinate location and set the default
> window so that it matches the size of the image. I placed the image file
> in the cell directory and ran r.support to create additional support files 
> (header, cats, and colr). The problem I'm having is that whenever I try to 
> display the image I get an error message saying can't set color 256, and 
> when I try to use d.colors it tells me "filename" has more colors than the 
> graphics device, though I'm using a 24 bit color monitor. I can't change
> the colors interactively. Why?
> 
> Thanks, Magaly
> 

Have you tryed "i.tape.other" to read in your SPOT imagery instead of
putting the image driectly into cell directory ?

Wang Song