Hi Hamish, Stephen and Tyler,<br>Thanks for your reply.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hamish</b> <<a href="mailto:hamish_nospam@yahoo.com">hamish_nospam@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>generic:<br>v.in.ogr dsn=mapname.shp out=mapname<br>g.region v=mapname<br>d.vect mapname type=area
</blockquote><div><br>OK, I forgot to mention that I indeed used v.in.ogr (I know of no other way of importing shapefiles into GRASS, so I thought that this wasn't needed). Apparently, it is a known problem that files take so long to load up.
<br><br>Thanks all for your replies.<br>Jose<br></div><br></div><br>