[GRASS-user] import e00? sorry for repeat topic, but...

[Brandon M. Gabler]

I cannot find the answer to my specific problem through the existing  
threads, nor can I properly search the GRASS list archives (that's  
another issue, but when I click one of my search results, a DIFFERENT  
message shows up unrelated to the link I clicked).

Here is my problem. I have a few e00 rasters from ArcGIS. When I view  
them in ArcMap, everything is fine. When I import using GRASS, with  
avcimport and e00conv installed, the maps display properly (I can see  
the different categories, etc.). However, the z value is simply a *.  
So when I query the file in a monitor, I get UTM-X | UTM-Y | *

Clearly, this is not the intended outcome! I do not get errors during  
the import, and I have tried exporting the e00 in different formats  
from ArcCatalog, and wondered if I should be converting my files to a  
different format instead of dealing with ESRI e00?

The other thing I attempted is to convert the e00 to an ASCII file in  
ArcInfo, then to import the ESRI ASCII in GRASS. Again, same result  
as above.

Am I having projection issues? Do I need to first import the e00/ 
ASCII to a mapset with the same projection settings as the original  
e00, then re-project, or is this unrelated? I think I had tried that  
already, with the same result as above, but am willing to try again  
if need be.

What other conversion options may work from within Arc?

Thanks,
Brandon