> 
> Hello users:
> 
> Tarek Sadek give us a great tip for the v.in.arc text attribute file, however
> we are importing very complex ARC/Info land use coverages and we still have
> troubles with the islands. ARC/Info tag each island with an -99999 ID, so when
> the file is imported those features are not right labeled.
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks a lot again!
> 

Does ARC really use -9999 for a user-ID, or is this the record number? I 
would be very much surprised if every island had a -9999 user-ID, as 
the user-ID is what you want your label to be, while the record number is  
for internal management of the data; it's obviously quite easy to open the 
ungenerated label file and edit the -9999's out. GRASS should be able to 
build the topology without.

Philip Verhagen
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