[winGRASS] Importing ArcView shape files & GRASS's file system

Fri Jun 20 16:40:45 EDT 2003

I'm an intern for the City of South Bend who uses ArcView but I will be
using GRASS for SIPA who I will be interning with next semester and my
boss now was also intrigued by the package so he has me playing with it
and my question seems to be on a popular topic, when I tried to import
an ArcView shape file everything appeared to work, no error message or
anything, but I could not locate the the file by the name I specified
the output to be anywhere.  Any insights into winGRASS's file system
would also be appreciated, obviously I can put the .shp file to be
imported in my cygwin folder and give an absolute file path to it but if
I want it to show up in the g.list listing what folders specifically
does it need to be in, I think I ended up putting it in about 4
different folders and then it worked.....Links to any tutorials and
either of these topics would be greatly appreciated as a response if any
are available. Thanks in advance

      Andy

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<DIV>I'm&nbsp;an intern&nbsp;for the City of South Bend who uses 
ArcView&nbsp;but I will be using GRASS for SIPA who I will be interning with 
next semester and my boss now was also intrigued by the package so he has me 
playing with it and my question seems to be on a popular topic, when I tried to 
import an ArcView shape file everything appeared to work, no error message or 
anything,&nbsp;but I could not locate the the file by the name I specified the 
output to be anywhere.&nbsp; Any insights into winGRASS's file system would also 
be appreciated, obviously I can put the .shp file to be imported in my cygwin 
folder and give an absolute file path to it but if I want it to show up in the 
g.list listing what folders specifically does it need to be in, I think I ended 
up putting it in about 4 different folders and then it worked.....Links to any 
tutorials and either of these topics would be greatly appreciated as a 
response&nbsp;if any are available. Thanks in advance</DIV>
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<DIV>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Andy</DIV></BODY></HTML>