*Craig<br>You used command "v.in.ogr -e dsn="contours lo29.shp" out=contours2" with the "-e" flag , this flag is for creating a new location with the imported data. But you don't specify any location..<br>
And may be better to use single quotes with the filenames like 'contours lo29.shp'.<br><br>-------------------------------<br>Alexander<br>