ARC/INFO file to be imported under GRASS

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Hello to all,

I am a GRASS beginner user with no experience about ARC/INFO, so please forgive
the question's profile.

My problem is to import ARC/INFO files under GRASS.
I have alredy seen on the GRASS Reference Manual the instruction v.in.arc but I
fear I miss somenthing.

In order provide a clear description of my problem at the end of the note I
have pasted few lines of the three files I have.

Now my questions are:

1) Which are the steps I should follow in order to visualize the information
kept in the files ?

2) With the kind of files like the ones I have pasted, once using the v.in.arc
command I think I should chose option polygon as coverage type.
Then I would select .pol as LINES FILENAME and after the file .lab as
LABEL_POINTS FILENAME but what's about the LABEL-TEXT FILENAME ?
In principal it looks like I am going to lose some information, is it really
true ? What can I take from the .items file ?

3) The first step of my activity is to import these files and then to recombine
the classes in order to achive a different kind of classification. As you can
immagine it is extremely important to be sure I wont lose information during
this importation phase. It is reasonable to hope everithing, at the end, will
work properly ? Is there any usefull advice ?

I hope someone could find the time to give me an help.

I can also be contacted at the following Email address:
        apellacc at vmprofs.estec.esa.nl

Thanks a lot

                Alessandro


The following is the test.lab file

         1      66725.367188     452692.937500
         2     226330.265625     618087.437500
         3     235162.343750     618358.500000
         4     234285.156250     617964.937500
         5     227764.875000     617652.062500
         6     234980.734375     615882.062500
         7     222731.796875     614277.875000
         8     207732.390625     612927.750000
         9     203441.531250     613363.625000
        10     212747.375000     611600.000000
        11     209348.406250     611537.375000
        12     214674.437500     612124.687500


The next is the test.pol file

         1      66725.367188     452692.937500
     242267.796875     609173.687500
     241887.625000     609119.687500
     241548.796875     609036.125000
     241548.796875     609036.125000
     241030.343750     608910.562500
     240717.953125     608779.250000
     240381.265625     608596.500000
     240381.265625     608596.500000
     239897.859375     608614.062500



The following file is the  test.items file  where the items are:
area,perimeter,internal-id, lable-id, data code.
 When the area has ****** as value this means area has a larger number than
could be stored in the item .

************,1527386.375,2,1,523
7571235.500,19628.092,3,2,423
2807734.750,14122.066,4,3,423
585052.813,3344.403,5,4,421
700193.500,5844.927,6,5,421
997790.063,4957.409,7,6,423
1068123.625,5294.255,8,7,423
15674985.000,48486.074,9,8,331
1141419.625,8553.252,10,9,423
5844739.500,21424.426,11,10,421
12264848.000,33890.898,12,11,321
387706.906,4092.140,13,12,331
1438199.375,7134.815,14,13,313
3434878.750,9842.599,15,14,231
284748.063,2484.282,16,15,112
1349342.250,6232.788,17,16,423
601499.000,4170.819,18,17,423
************,490715.281,19,18,211
10133960.000,65920.008,20,19,331