
Jim,

Change the 4th line of your DLG in some editor to read

     3     3     0     2 0.50800000000D+02     4     0     4     1

instead of like you had it:

     3     3  9999     2 0.50800000000D+02     4     0     4     1

The first 3 states that the file is DLG-3Optional format, the second 3
states that it is in an Albers Equal Area projection, and the next area
is for the zone number.  If this were a UTM projection, you would need
a zone, but the correct entry for an Albers is 0.  You may need to put
the 0 in exactly the same place I have it, the same as the last 9 in
9999, or the last byte of the field, for the import program to read it
correctly.

Refer to USGS Data Users Guide 1 - Digital Line Graphs from 1:24,000
Scale Maps for more info on DLG files, both standard and optional formats.

Good Luck !

David Hoover
Manager, Cartography and GIS Section
USDA - Soil Conservation Service
Idaho
a16dhoover@attmail.com


