bringing in point data from ARC

[Simon Cox]

>Notice that this process puts the record number into the attribute
>column in GRASS, which may or may not be what you want.  You may need
>to create another file of the attributes and then add it onto the
>first column of the .lab file in place of the $recno, or as the third
>column of a post-awked file.  This would require some minor perl
>programming or a good editor.

The Unix command "paste" can be combined with "awk" to accomplish similar.

Simon Cox

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