Importing ArcInfo files

[Malcolm Williamson]

Stephan,
The files that you are looking at are in the ArcINFO "export" format, as 
indicated by the ".e00" extension. This is a proprietary format that 
cannot be directly imported into GRASS. The only ArcINFO format that 
GRASS can directly import is the ASCII "ungenerate" format. These days, 
SDTS format is also a reasonable choice for moving files from ArcINFO to 
GRASS (and vice versa). 

The only way that I know of to get these files into GRASS is to use a 
version of ArcINFO to translate them to one of the above mentioned 
formats. Sorry!
	-Malcolm Williamson

 On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Stephan Eickschen wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have downloaded some data from the Antarctic Digital Database
> (http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/magic/add_main.html). They are
> supposed to be ArcInfo files containing coastlines, surface featuers
> and so on. But I really do not know how to import them into GRASS. I
> attach the reult of
> head *.e00 >! ADD.ArcInfo.files
> If someone needs the complete file(s), please feel free to look at
> 	http://earth.uni-muenster.de/~eicksch/ftp/GRASS_DATA/
> There you will find all of them.
> 
> Any suggestion will be highly appriciated,
> 
> 	Stephan
> 
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