[GRASSLIST:5543] v.in.ascii doesn't work on my computer

[Robert S. Nuske]

Dear Grass-Listers,  
  
after consulting other Grass users it seems that I am the only one, who can  
not read in ascii files with v.in.ascii. The same procedure (see below) works 
perfectly on other computers (Debian too), but not on mine. I tried grass57, 
grass60 and grass60cvs (all compiled from source). It's all the same. 
 
I have no clue what I am doing wrong, so all hints are more than welcome. 
 
cheers, 
  robert 
 
 
 
Here is what I did: 
 
I used emacs to write following Coordinates in to the file test.txt.  
  
> cat test.txt  
599251|4927066  
599090|4926953  
599097|4926472  
599280|4925969  
599863|4926391  
599849|4926841  
  
> cat test.txt | v.in.ascii fs='|' out=points6 x=1 y=2  
Maximum input row length: 15  
Maximum number of columns: 2  
Minimum number of columns: 2  
Building topology ...  
0 primitives registered  
0 areas built  
0 isles built  
Attaching islands: Attaching centroids: Topology was built.  
Number of nodes     :   0  
Number of primitives:   0  
Number of points    :   0  
Number of lines     :   0  
Number of boundaries:   0  
Number of centroids :   0  
Number of areas     :   0  
Number of isles     :   0