help w/ dem extract

[Olga Waupotitsch]

In info.grass.user you write:

>I can use some help.
>  I've been trying to extract some DEM data from a file and I keep 
>getting errors.  The data comes from a USGS tape, was downloaded 
>onto a prime and ftp'd to my home directory.  I have been trying to 
>use m.dem.extract and after getting the reagion info and first header 
>for the quad, I get the fallowing  problem:
> For the first 53 files I get 5 messages saying "Warning unexpectid 
>C-type record encountered (see GRASS4.1 manual for detailes) Trying 
>to recover . . ."
>  I then get the same message with "OK! Recovered!" at the  end.
>  Then I see header type info fallowed by "(outside current 
>geographical region)"
>  This this all flashes by very quickly for the 53 'files'.
>  It then reads 'end of records, Reading profile 3 of 386, Error:  '
>  Next I get the grass prompt.

>If I try to start m.dem.extract from 'file 54' I get exact same things 
>except with no header type info and 'outside current geo. region' 
>message.
>  There seems to be no output.
>  Any ideas?   Thanks!!!
>Morris Trimmer
>Washington & Lee University
>Lexington, VA. 24450
>trimmer at wlu.edu
>(703) 463-8846

Please ftp the data to me.
You can put it on moon.cecer.army.mil (grass/incoming) directoy.
Send me email when it's there.
Olga