Dem woes: Unexpected Type-3 record encountered

[Olga Waupotitsch]

In info.grass.user you write:


>I have been trying to use the m.dem.extract tool to
>convert to grass 1-degree dem files available on the
>net.  (These are files -- not tape info.) However, I get
>the error message described above.  Is there an easy
>fix?

>(I realize that I could edit the (ASCII) dem files
>with sed to remove header-type info, import these into
>grass as raw ASCII raster files, then convert from a
>radial projection to UTM, but this is looking like a
>hassel.)

>Any, any help would be appreciated.

>-Howard

>   Howard Foster (nsf at ced.berkeley.edu) Ph.D.
>   candidate^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H, (got it!) Environmental
>   Planning, UC Berkeley.  Phone: 510-848-1241

Can you ftm the data to me please?
I modified the program to extract from disk file.
But I never got a hold of non-UTM DEM data to test it.
Thank You
Olga