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[Brian Sherrod]

I am new to Grass after spending the last 12 years working on an
infernal Windows machine running Arc and ArcGIS.  I am now running SuSE
Linux 10.0 on a Dell with an Intel P4, and have Grass 5.0 installed.  I
installed gdal 1.3.1 from the SuSE 9.3 RPMs posted on the Hannover Grass
website. My problem is when I try to import lidar data formatted as Arc
grids.  Grass sends me the following error:

ERROR 4:  '/catfish_sm' does not exist in the file system and is not
recognised as a supported datset name.

I get the same error when trying to import ascii DEMs (USGS DEMs).
Anyone have any hints to send me down the correct path?  Wrong
installation of gdal?? Path not set correctly?? Many thanks ahead of
time for your help.  Cheers.....Brian Sherrod
bsherrod at ess.washington.edu