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lines in Grass 6.0? v.type complained that points to lines are incompatible
types. Do I have to do a multi-step conversion from points -> centroids
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page says its possible to use points in the input map; and the program runs
cleanly with no error messages, but no lines are built in the process. </span></font></p>
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