[GRASS5] m.in.e00 status, project

[Ezra Glenn]

I am a land use planner in Massachusetts interested in expanding the use of
GRASS by municipal public planners.  Our state has a very good GIS
department, but everything is available only in .e00 or ESRI shapefile
format (see http://www.state.ma.us/mgis/database.htm for examples).

The burden of having to convert this data to GRASS might prevent people from
otherwise seeing the exciting potential of this open source resource, so I'd
like to work with the State to offer a CD with all the layers already
converted.  

At present, what is the state of m.in.e00 and other conversion options?
Should I be using 5.x instead of 4.3?  Please advise.

Ezra Glenn
Environmental & Land Use Planner
McGregor & Associates
60 Temple Place, Suite 410
Boston, MA 02111
email:	eglenn at mcgregorlaw.com
phone:  617-338-6464 x18
fax:       617-338-0737