[GRASSLIST:520] Re: importing .E00 files

[Moritz Lennert]

stef said:
> Hello,
> I have been attempting to import .e00 files with
> limited success.  After I decompressing the files I
> ran m.in.e00 -s [filename].  This generated several
> other files in the dig_cats file under my mapset.
>
> After copying all of these files g.copy
> vect=[filename],[filename.something] I ran the d.vect
> filename and there was nothing..no errors are given.
>
> I went back and ran the v.info [filename] and the only
> problem appears to be in the category field, there is
> a question mark and not a numerical value.

You mean the "Number of Categories:" field ? This just takes the highest
category number available, so it doesn't mean much if the category numbers
don't start with 1 and iterate with step 1.

> This I
> suspect is the problem, but I do not know where to
> look to fix the error.

First of all, are you sure the region is set correctly ? Try g.region
vect=YourVectorMap, d.erase, d.vect YourVectorMap.

Moritz