Conversion from ARC/INFO

[Tim Miller]

> From grass-lists-owner at moon.cecer.army.mil Thu Jan 26 13:22:42 1995
> 	id AA25997; Thu, 26 Jan 95 13:22:41 -0800
> From: sayeed at weirich530.geography.uiowa.edu
> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 13:12:25 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Re: Conversion from ARC/INFO
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> 
> I really appreciate knowing that both Scott Miller and Bill Baker (and
> probably many other persons, I assume) have used the DISPLAY command in
> ARC/INFO to output to a ASCII .txt file with no problem.  When I was
> converting files from ARC/INFO to GRASS, I was getting a BAD WRITE error.  I
> was planning to call the ARC people, but I got around the problem by using
> the REPORT command. 
> 
> Just to check the procedure again, I just used the DISPLAY command on one of
> my files.  The following is the error that I get if I use the DISPLAY command
> in INFO to create the ASCII .txt file for GRASS. 
> 
> AN EXAMPLE OF THE ERROR:
> **************************************************************************
> 
> Arc: INFO
>  INFO  EXCHANGE  CALL
> 26/01/1995  11:30:42
>  INFO  9.42  11/11/86  52.74.63*
>  Copyright (C) 1994 Doric Computer Systems International Ltd.
>  All rights reserved.
>  Proprietary to Doric Computer Systems International Ltd.
>  US Govt Agencies see usage restrictions in Help files (Help Restrictions)
>  ENTER USER NAME>ARC
>  
>  ENTER COMMAND >SEL VEGCL.PAT
>        7 RECORD(S) SELECTED
>  
>  ENTER COMMAND >LIST
>  $RECNO           AREA    PERIMETER VEGCL# VEGCL-ID
>       1        -40.320       29.934     1      0
>       2         25.797       59.846     2     64
>       3          2.175        9.229     3     63
>       4          4.871       14.019     4     67
>       5          2.587       16.535     5     65
>       6          3.039       11.302     6     66
>       7          1.852        7.729     7     68
>  
>  ENTER COMMAND >OUTPUT /home/sayeed/vegcl.txt
>  
>  ENTER COMMAND >ITEMS  
>  DATAFILE NAME: VEGCL.PAT                                           01/26/1995
>     4 ITEMS: STARTING IN POSITION    1
>  COL  ITEM NAME         WDTH OPUT TYP N.DEC  ALTERNATE NAME
>     1  AREA                4   12  F    3
>     5  PERIMETER           4   12  F    3
>     9  VEGCL#              4    5  B    -
>    13  VEGCL-ID            4    5  B    -
>  
>  ENTER COMMAND >DISPLAY $RECNO, AREA, PERIMETER PRINT
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
> LU  8   BAD WRITE (DBWRIT)
>  
>  ENTER COMMAND >OUTPUT arcsnp
> 
>  ENTER COMMAND >Q STOP
> Arc: 
> EXAMPLE ENDS.
> ****************************************************************************
> 
> I do have enough space and write permission in my /home/sayeed directory.  I
> talked to the system administrator, but he was clueless.  I have been using
> ARC/INFO 7.0.2 and UNIX system on IBM RS/6000.  Has anyone else got the same
> type of problem? If anybody has any clue, please let me know. 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> - Sayeed
>   sayeed at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
>   sayeed at weirich530.geography.uiowa.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
 
You might want to use TABLES, and the the unload command.  UNLOAD creates a
text file also.

Enter Command: unload
Usage: UNLOAD <out_file> {item...item} {DELIMITED | COLUMNAR <format_file>}
              {INIT}