getting a category without display

[Janne Soimasuo]

In article <9410102055.AA15844 at chabot.ced.berkeley.edu> you wrote:
: Is it possible to basically do "d.what.rast" without having a display?
: I want to be able to pass true Northing and Eastings into d.what.rast
: or some other program without using the mouse, and get back the 
: category of a specified raster map.

: Sue Huse
: REGIS
: UC Berkeley
try r.what

r.what mapname < xy-file 


janne