[GRASS-user] Problems with import of shapefile

[Wolfgang Zillig]

Hi,

I've imported a shapefile into a lat/long area (I'm not completely sure 
if I use the right area, but there was no documentation at all).
v.in.ogr ...
but as soon as I want to set the current region to my vector map I get 
the following error:
ERROR: Cannot open old vector laos1 at lao on level 2

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Wolfgang

PS I'm running on cygwin grass 6.1.csv